{"id":463,"date":"2009-02-01T13:36:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T20:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=463"},"modified":"2009-04-16T16:15:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T23:15:41","slug":"rainy-days-and-puppy-paws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Days and Puppy Paws"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"clothes-on-a-line\"It is unusual to have several days of rain in sunny southern California, but the ground all around me is saturated.\u00a0 As I step on the grass in the backyard there is an ooze of muddy water and I sink nearly an inch into the not-so-solid-sod.<\/p>\n

Dalai loves the mud and mess.\u00a0 She has been bathed three times over the weekend with knee high mud boots and a muzzle caked solid with dirt and grit.\u00a0 While the soil is usually too hard to penetrate during the warmer days of spring and summer, even the rocks seem to give way in the down pour.\u00a0 All this makes for one happy puppy to dig to her hearts delight.\u00a0 Between the bunny holes and the Dalai divots the backyard looks like a not-so-miniature golf course.<\/p>\n

As the sun broke through for just a moment, I wondered if I had time to put a few sheets on the line before the next rains come in to town.\u00a0 Sipping water from my stainless steel Klean Kanteen I smiled at the early morning irony of living green in a high-speed-wireless networked-technology-saturated house.<\/p>\n

From fiber optic cables coming in for the grand convergence to laundry lines strung between palm trees in the back yard for the grand conservation.\u00a0 It seems the life of illusion is a bundle of polar opposites.\u00a0 Each seemingly separate contradiction trying to draw our mind away from the moment and into the dark conversation of qualitative bits and pieces.<\/p>\n

All the while, the sun is trying to break through the scattered dark clouds that block our seeing of the sights and sounds that are right before our eyes.\u00a0 Except for the puppy of course, who is never caught in the fallacy of the illusion and who is content to play in the mud even if it means yet another bath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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