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THE DILEMMA OF THE COMPASSIONATE CARNIVORE

posted 2 months ago by Ray N. | 4 comments
(This is a copy of an email I wrote to a CNN columnist.)

Regarding your support of the banning of fur sales in West Hollywood, CA, may I ask : What did you have for lunch yesterday? For Thanksgiving dinner? Do you ever eat hamburgers, turkey, chi...

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At the Fair....

posted 4 months ago by CaliforniaBlonde | 9 comments
We went up north yesterday, to the Fresno County Fair. I haven’t been to the fair in 25 years or more. The last time I was there, it was to see the Beach Boys in concert….

I wasn’t interested in the midway, but wanted to see the agricultural exhi...

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Dog Park

posted 7 months ago by amandac | 5 comments
Have you ever journeyed down a road whose aura captures you? The sensations engulf you? It exists to be your favorite as it connects you to some where special.

Is it the change in temperature, the dancing shadows of the trees, the winding of the...

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Kat....

posted 7 months ago, updated 1 minute later by CaliforniaBlonde | 5 comments
It's the middle of the night and I can't sleep. Nothing's wrong, or worrying me, I just can't sleep.

I went out to the kitchen to get a drink of water and woke the dogs up. They sleep in the laundry room, just off the kitchen. Of course, if one ...

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Suffering Animals Part II

posted about 1 year ago by horses401 | 4 comments
Another poem by Rainer Maria Rilke:

THE PANTHER

His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. It seems to him there are
a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.

As he paces in cramped...

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Suffering Animals-Keep Scrolling down

posted about 1 year ago, updated 6 minutes later by horses401 | 2 comments
We know they're there, but we have checking accounts to balance, dinner to cook, irrasible kids to worry about, a class we want to take, friends who argue, cry on my shoulder when I am the one who wants to cry. We live in the suburbs where strip m...

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More on Yellowstone plus pictures

posted about 1 year ago, updated 13 minutes later by Aurablueyes | 1 comment
Someone asked me what my favorite thing was at Yellowstone...this may sound a bit odd but aside from the indescribable scenery and amazing animals I mostly enjoyed the international setting this park afforded. I was quite amazed at how many people...

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Yellowstone National Park

posted about 1 year ago by Aurablueyes | 2 comments
My daughter and I recently traveled to Yellowstone...WOW! Words cannot describe what we saw. We often take for granted what the Earth is all about, how it functions, the delicate but complex environment(s) it creates, that it is a living thing tha...

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Still Snowing

posted over 2 years ago by ZoeCassard | 0 comments
Yes, it's still snowing. H bought a box of some kind of cat grass seed and dirt, which she's growing on an upper shelf in the kitchen.

The pack has been grazing on the remaining spider plant but it's just not enough when they're used to grazing ...

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We all have stories.. here's one of mine

posted over 2 years ago by rebel4life | 1 comment
I love ducks.. but the closest I've ever come is when I rescued a mother duck and her 6 ducklings who were crossing a very busy, divided four lane street, right in the heart of town during rush hour traffic.
The traffic was speeding along with no ...

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