On a whim, we pulled into a parking lot on a Thursday evening. The sign out front said that dog training classes were being offered. As a dog lover and self-described training geek, I’m always curious to see how people run their classes. We slipped in quietly at the back, interested to see how dog owners were being taught to work with their dogs. I was disappointed but not surprised to see that on instructor’s table next to the flat and Martingale collars were also a choke chain and a prong collar. It looked like this wasn’t one of the more progressive training groups. Then the insistent barking off to one side caught my attention.
Archives for August 2012
Minute to Freedom #52: Detachment
Today let’s talk about detachment. Has it ever felt like you were getting sucked into the drama of someone else’s world?
A Dream For The Queen
Artist Janet Vanderhoof, inspired and deeply touched by the work of Patricia Sims and Michael Clark Filmmakers of “Return to the Forest” depicting the reintroduction of bringing the Elephants of Thailand back to the wild, felt a need to create her painting … ‘A Dream For The Queen’.
Spheres Of Influence
Author and photographer Vincent Ross reminds us that it is the little things that count in life and encourages us to enjoy the day by making the time to see it’s treasured moments.
Five Important Lessons to Pass on to your Children
When I was growing up there were fire drills not lockdowns, fists not knives, playground bullying ended at the school gate, divorce was rare, students had less money, there were no mobile phones or internet and drugs and alcohol were prevalent but the harder drugs weren’t so readily available. Although the average teenager has more […]
Heavy Weather
During the late afternoon and early evening of April 3, 2004, this supercell thunderstorm dropped 2 inch-diameter hail over Chaparral, N.M. causing widespread damage.
Returning Elephants To The Forest
For most of us in the Western world, the first time we would’ve seen an elephant was likely in a circus or a zoo. But what we were never told is how the elephant, a wild animal that roams the jungles and savannah of lands far away, got to be in the zoo or the circus in the first place. It’s time to return elephants to their natural role in the forest before it’s too late for the elephants and the forests. Join us on World Elephant Day August 12th to find out how.
Mayhem, Mistakes and Mastering the Motorway
So, this whole driving on the wrong side of the road thing: where was I? Oh yes, the Devon country roads so narrow and twisting they could have been a Tea Party policy seminar, with ten-foot high hedgerows crowding in on either side.
Minute to Freedom #51: Developing Faith
Today let’s talk about developing faith. Has it ever seemed tough to rely on God? Sometimes it is easy to talk faith, but more difficult to put it into practice.
The Giant – Saturn
While cruising around Saturn in early October 2004, Cassini captured a series of images that have been composed into the largest, most detailed, global natural color view of Saturn and its rings ever made.
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