az- The Truro Bear and Other Adventures -by Mary Oliver

There’s a bear in the Truro woods.
People have seen it - three or four,
or two, or one. I think
of the thickness of the serious woods
around the dark bowls of the Truro ponds;
I think of the blueberry fields, the blackberry tangles,
the cranberry bogs. And the sky
with its new moon, its familiar star-trails,
burns down like a brand-new heaver,
while everywhere I look on the scratchy hillsides
shadows seem to grow shoulders. Surely
a beast might be clever, be lucky, move quietly
through the woods for years, learning to stay away
from roads and houses. Common sense mutters:
it can’t be true, it must be somebody’s
runaway dog. But the seed
has been planted, and when has happiness ever
required much evidence to begin
its leaf-green breathing?

nice. skimming thr, not m engaged by these poems as poems. phrases & line breaks jar as obvious, not like thought thinking thr. I do like this one though, happily as it gives poem to the picture of the bear on the cover that I like.
fine: happiness breathes leaf-green.

and what she writes is nice. the series re her dog Percy is sweet. he does not like when she reads, no, he wouldn't. and #10 in the series: I ask Percy how I should live my life. Love, love, love. and hurry as fast as you can (why hurry? bcs fun to run?) along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then trust.
good: love, love, love. be in the world. then go to sleep, give up, trust.

Kermit the Hermit

Kermit the Hermit - .billpeet.net
In Monterey Bay There's a jumble of rock

Stacked up like a castle across from a dock.

The king of this castle, an old crab called Kermit,

Lived all by himself in a cave like a hermit.

Kermit the Hermit - Wkp
One day, when Kermit attempts to gain another unnecessary thing, he is almost buried by a dog, but is saved by a poor boy. Kermit is grateful and wants to thank the boy, but cannot think of a way to do so until he finds a chest of gold. As he stores the gold pieces in his cave, he slowly gives up one thing at a time, until he has all the gold and no more possessions in his cave. With the help of the pelican, Kermit drops coins down the boy's chimney. The boy's family becomes rich and Kermit learns the value of sharing.

"Hi, scary man!"

oh-

pic & caption from Long Live Locke.: S5Ep8 - LaFleur

the hello gaze, baby seeing *you*

Completely 'Lost': Hmm...
{Dr. Chang's baby in 5.1 opening scene ~ resemblance to Miles Straume}
shotgun willie got all of his family there



oh- I love the hello gaze, the baby seeing *you*


5 May adding closeup, source Long Live Locke.: S5Ep14 - The Variable

animal heroes

maro to patandmanoli , ecassimatis , mcassimatis

3:09pm

Click to Give @ The Animal Rescue Site

Mom, have you been remembering to go here everyday & click? I recommend making it a bookmark!! in your bookmark toolbar, so you see it.
and every day I have been getting to read about Animal Heroes, as below. it's awesome. lots of dogs & cats who helped their people notice a situation and avert catastrophe. I've liked every story! I wonder if the stories are saved somewhere. as far as I know so far, each story appears here for a day or less and then disappears from the internet...
and I guess the stories are about to end ~ "winner announced March 2nd" so that's tomorrow!
maybe when they announce the winner they will also show me a link to a page where all the stories are.

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Hi,

I've really enjoyed your Animal Heroes contest, all the stories. I am looking but have not found a page where I can read all the entries. Is there such a page? an archive? Or could there be? I found the Rescued Animals Stories, but not the Animal Heroes ones. I'd love to be able to read & revisit those stories.

Thanks for your good work and a great site!

Maro

helio

face like orange? scaredy-eyes but really not scared but rather rambunctious

hi baby girl

Beau Dean

that's a funny name! like the Bo Deans. 'no no no don't pass me over no no no don't pass me by see I can see good things for you and I yeah good things for you and I.'
sometimes I have to get past thinking 'doobie brothers' before can think the name 'bo deans' just the b-d-ness of it. anyway hi healthy Beau Dean!


Click to Give @ The Animal Rescue Site / Rescue Stories

Hachikō

Hachikō (ハチ公, Hachikō? November 10, 1923–March 8, 1935), known in Japanese as chūken Hachikō (忠犬ハチ公, chūken Hachikō? "faithful dog Hachikō"), was an Akita dog born in the city of Odate, Akita Prefecture remembered for his loyalty to his master.

In 1924, Hachikō, an akito dog, was brought to Tokyo by his owner, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo. During his owner's life Hachikō saw him off from the front door and greeted him at the end of the day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno didn't return on the usual train one evening. The professor had suffered a stroke at the university that day. He died and never returned to the train station where his friend was waiting. Hachikō was given away after his master's death, but he routinely escaped, showing up again and again at his old home. After time, Hachikō apparently realized that Professor Ueno no longer lived at the house. So he went to look for his master at the train station where he had accompanied him so many times before. Each day, Hachikō waited for Professor Ueno to return. And each day he didn't see his friend among the commuters at the station. The permanent fixture at the train station that was Hachikō.. like Dog Monday. Rilla of __. soldier Jem, still not home after all trainfuls of returning soldiers stop. this story is in me, the train, the platform, the dog waiting at the station. and! the flash across the platform Dog Monday old? Dog Monday slow? This continued for 10 years, with Hachikō appearing only in the evening time, precisely when the train was due at the station.

One of Ueno's former students (who had become something of an expert on the Akita breed) saw the dog at the station and followed him to the Kobayashi home where he learned the history of Hachikō's life. Shortly after this meeting, the former student published a documented census of Akitas in Japan. His research found only 30 purebred Akitas remaining, including Hachikō from Shibuya Station.
Professor Ueno's former student returned frequently to visit the dog and over the years published several articles about Hachikō's remarkable loyalty.
In April 1934, a bronze statue in his likeness was erected at Shibuya Station, and Hachikō himself was present at its unveiling. The statue was recycled for the war effort during World War II. After the war, Hachikō was not forgotten. In 1948 The Society for Recreating the Hachikō Statue commissioned Takeshi Ando, son of the original artist who had since died, to make a second statue. The new statue, which was erected in August 1948, still stands and is an extremely popular meeting spot. The station entrance near this statue is named "Hachikō-guchi", meaning "The Hachikō Exit", and is one of Shibuya Station's five exits.


via "Tis the Season (asllvn December 23, 2008): The leading Mental Health Break is the following: [soldier welcomed home by his dogs].A reader emails to note another celebrated [wkp /Hachiko] canine love

childhood endings

Pooh Corner - A Short History of Pooh and Winnie:
As Milne wrote at the end of In Which Christopher Robin and Pooh Come to an Enchanted Place and We Leave Them There – 'wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on top of the Forest, a little boy and his bear will always be playing.'

or his penguin.
Binkley "A boy and his penguin!" Opus: "A penguin and his boy!"


or his tiger.
C&H : The last strip
calvin: Wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful?
hobbes: Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!
calvin: A new year, a fresh clean start!
hobbes: It's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!
calvin: A day full of possibilities! It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way,
in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

goodnight opus

Berkeley Breathed explains why he is ending his comic strip "Opus" | Salon Books
---Do you think cartooning itself is a dying form, now that there are fewer news outlets for young cartoonists to get their start? Or will it evolve into some other form? And if so ... any clue what that is?
There'll always be great, classic cartooning. There'll also be radio. Concept rock albums. Theatrical movie dramas for intelligent adults. Little kids riding bicycles down a neighborhood street without a grown-up. Family dinner hours. Eleven-year-old girls who dress like children. Instant coffee. Buggy whips.
They'll just be much harder to find.
The very, absolute last comic strip characters destined to become true household words across America were invented 23 years ago: Calvin & Hobbes. There are and will be no more new ones.
I will miss the crinkly mass of pressed dead tree held aloft over my Caesar salad and iced tea at the corner cafe.
Opus will be where I'd like to think of him being for the rest of my life ... which will be a small surprise to many readers.
Come to think of it, I've given a good clue in this interview.
...Stories for children are a refuge from the firefight going on above the foxhole. is that the clue?

On Sunday, Nov. 2, the comic "Opus" will end. Worse yet, creator Berkeley Breathed has made it clear that the strip's namesake will, in that final strip, find his "final paradise." (Opus 10/12)

Opus 11/2

Where is his final resting place?

By Berkeley Breathed Nov 2, 2008

... humanesociety.org/opus

oh! he's in Goodnight Moon. makes me cry. Goodnight Opus And goodnight air Goodnight noises everywhere

comment at youtube:
-hahhaha "MOMMMAAA"
love the part where they both stared at the camera. yes me too ~00:50.

via and for his title:
HYPNOGOGIC ZOO: Are you my mother?
Posted by PABLO GAZPACHOT


are you, are you, are you? mother??

ofachildpretending 2007/03: ARE YOU MY MOTHER?!

cat & drink box

YouTube - 特訓するねこ。



asslvn: cat and a diet soda box

up and out

"Look how did the dog escape"

asllvn 10/27 Why I Love Beagles ::
It's all about freedom. Watch this little bugger escape.


I like best how he climbs with his back feet on the fence-wall which is at right angles to the fence front door his front feet are on, so his body spans a corner

Happy birthday little bear

"Happy 50th Birthday Paddington Bear!"




Google Logo Helps Celebrate Paddington Bear 50th Birthday - Original Technology: The Post Chronicle:
Fifty years ago today, on October 13, 1958 "A Bear Called Paddington" was first published. English author Michael Bond recalls how Paddington first came into being: "I bought a small toy bear on Christmas Eve 1956. I saw it left on a shelf in a London store & felt sorry for it. I took it home as a present for my wife Brenda & named it Paddington as we were living near Paddington Station at the time. I wrote some stories about the bear, more for fun than w the idea of having them published. After ten days I found I had a book on my hands. It wasn't written specifically for children, but I think I put into it the kind things I liked reading about when I was young."


Paddington Bear - Wkp:
The polite immigrant bear from Darkest Peru, with his old bush hat, battered suitcase and marmalade sandwiches has become a classic English children's literature icon.
Paddington is an anthropomorphised bear. He is always polite (always addressing people as "Mr.", "Mrs." and "Miss" and very rarely by first names) and well-meaning (though he inflicts hard stares on those who incur his disapproval), likes marmalade sandwiches and cocoa, and has an endless capacity for getting into trouble. However, he is known to "try so hard to get things right".
In the first story, Paddington is found at Paddington railway station in London by the Brown family, sitting on his suitcase (bearing the label "WANTED ON VOYAGE") with a note attached to his coat which reads, "Please look after this bear. Thank you." Bond has said that his memories of newsreels showing trainloads of child evacuees leaving London during the war, with labels around their necks and their possessions in small suitcases, prompted him to do the same for Paddington. He has arrived as a stowaway coming from "Darkest Peru", sent by his Aunt Lucy (one of his only known relatives, aside from an Uncle Pastuzo who gave Paddington his hat), who has gone to live in the Home for Retired Bears in Lima. He claims, "I came all the way in a lifeboat, and ate marmalade. Bears like marmalade." He tells them that no one can understand his Peruvian name, so the Browns decide to call him Paddington after the railway station in which he was found.

Happy birthday little bear - Sunderland Echo:
The Paddington books proved such a great success that, in 1965, Michael Bond was able to retire from his job at the BBC to concentrate on writing.
But the global popularity of the little bear is still rather a mystery to 82-year-old Michael, who was awarded an OBE for services to children's literature in 1997. "I am constantly surprised by all the translations, because I thought that Paddington was essentially an English character," he said.
* Read more about Paddington Bear and Michael Bond on the official Paddington Bear website at www.paddingtonbear.co.uk

but does he still have the original bear he bought on xmas eve?
michael bond still "the original bear - Google Search
... Bear from 'darkest Peru' returns for new adventure -by Danica Kirka, Associated Press (13 June 2008, Daily Herald) :
oh- he and his ex-wife, with whom he is still on good terms, still share custody of the original bear.

"He's very real," Bond says. "If I met him on the street, he'd raise his hat to me."

Inside Picture Books - By Ellen Handler Spitz Google Book Search preview p27:
Apparently, at bedtime one evening, a little boy of eighteen months had heard Goodnight Moon five times and after the final rendition was contemplating the book as it lay open before him, its last pages revealed. These pages are the ones in which the "great green room" has grown dark and quiet and the little bunny has closed his eyes. The words read: "Goodnight noises everywhere." The small boy in question stared at the open book before him and then deliberately placed one of his feet on the left hand page and struggled to get his other foot on to the right-hand page; thereupon, he burst into tears. His mother, watching this behavior, took only a second to to realize what he was doing: he was trying with all his might to transport his whole small body into the cozy, loving world of Goodnight Moon (Marcus 1987, p.22) oh-


I'd suppose: trying to prolong the book and the presence of his mother reading. (defer moment when book is closed, she leaves, he is alone w night). & using his feet, bcs yes, in a way trying to keep book open by being physically inside it. ~ but I think he may want the reading, his mother there, as he wants the world of the book.

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"sings them to sleep" - Google Search
seems ~ video was named 'He Sings Them To Sleep'
YouTube - Lets see the Dog Whisperer do this!!
1 min 40 sec - www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCnAjel02lM



also....
butterfly washington post christian lion - Google Search
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly. "One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." -- Hans Christian Anderson ...

here go:
Washington Post Magazine - washingtonpost.com:

The Butterfly Effect

A man's one-in-a-million close encounter with an insect.

Editor's Note:

By Tom Shroder, Page W02

IS THERE ANYONE who hasn't seen the video of Christian the lion?

at 00:38 of 02:28 winding down from playing ball, the lion puts his arm across the shoulder of one of his guys and they both

lion

YouTube - Christian the Lion - the full story (in HQ)
at 00:38 of 02:28 winding down from playing ball on church grounds in London, the lion puts his arm across the shoulder of one of his guys and they both lower to sitting, the lion looking over his own shoulder at the camera I love that part


LiveLeak.com - Lion Reunites with Humans: This lion was reared by the guys in the vid,he was then released into the wild in africa but a year later the guys returned to see if he was doing OK.
Check out the look on the lions face as he realises-"thats not food its my MATES!!"
Whats mad is the wild lions hes friends with never met the humans but they are totally passive towards them. y I was struck by that.


wkp at some pains to clarify which visit was videotaped & when:
First Reunion (videotaped): When Rendall and Bourke were informed by Adamson of Christian's successful reintroduction to the wild (reported in some newspaper articles to be in 1971, and by George Adamson to be 1972^[3]), they travelled to Kenya to visit Christian and were filmed in the documentary Christian, The Lion at World's End. According to the documentary, Adamson advised Rendall and Bourke that Christian may not remember them, but the film shows a first cautious lion suddenly leaping onto the two men, wrapping his arms around their shoulders and nuzzling their faces. The documentary also shows the female lions, Mona and Lisa, and a foster cub named Supercub welcoming the two men.
Second Reunion: Rendall details a final, unfilmed reunion that occurred (reported in some newspaper articles to have been in 1974, and by George Adamson to have been in 1973^[4]). By this time Christian was successfully defending his own pride, had cubs of his own and was about twice the size he was in the earlier reunion video.^[5] Adamson advised Rendall that it would most likely be a wasted trip as he had not seen Christian's pride for nine months. However when he reached Kora that Christian and his pride had returned to Adamson's compound the day before their arrival.

Rendall describes the visit: "We called him and he stood up and started to walk towards us very slowly. Then, as if he had become convinced it was us, he ran towards us, threw himself on to us, knocked us over, knocked George over and hugged us, like he used to, with his paws on our shoulders."

A viral video of the first reunion (edited from the documentary) received worldwide attention more than 30 years after the event

Christian, the lion who lived in my London living room | dailymail.co.uk 04 May 2007:
"Christian used to lie beside me while I did the accounts at weekends," remembers a woman who worked at the furniture shop on the King's Road in London. "He was very loving and affectionate - he liked to stand and put his paws on your shoulders."
He eventually grew too big to be kept as a pet and was taken to Kenya, where he was rehabilitated into the wild by the 'Lion Man', George Adamson.
Now, his story is to be told in a new book, written by the Australian John Rendall who, along with his friend Ace Berg, bought Christian from Harrods in 1969. I find no listing at az or az-uk for a new book... and why-how did the video come to internet attention (even screened on the today show) in July 2008, why not sooner.

George Adamson photos fatheroflions.org.: George Adamson with Christian the Lion. Christian flew to Kenya all the way from Chelsea England. There is a fascinating movie titled 'Christian the Lion' which tells the story of how Christian moved from England to live a life in the wilds of Kenya, East Africa.