Recent Musings. . .

We all love to have animal images around us – instinctively we grab for an animal item and hug it.  We’d all prefer the real thing, but intuit rather quickly that we cannot expect a bear to let us lie on its back or a penguin to want to swim in our soup.  Then there are those like Sea World who think they can convince a killer whale to want to join us at our table and eat with a spoon.  The lesson always eventually comes – animals have their own books of etiquette and we are not invited to dine with them for a very good reason!  They, at least, have the courtesy not to try to make us live in their habitats.  So let’s invite them to ours in the kindest possible way – in ceramic or cloth or metallic versions, so the real ones can keep on doing what they are meant to do - prowl and hiccup through the world.