AUTHOR.CALHO: If I didn't write it, I would be hitch hiking cross country to Maine and then Alaska in that order. While taking frequent breaks to spread leaflets. And sit in diners. And write on things because I wasn't at a computer. I may still do that in a few years. Writing this also helps me forget about and better understand the limitations of being human, and keeps me busy enough to allow me no free time to burn the world down.

THEMATIC.ABOUT : Collapse often. The things that hold people together and hold them apart and scatter brains. The things that make thoughts go boom. The things that ooh and aah and [expletive deleted]. Sometimes poking around the margins where responsibility ends and the only one to look to is the Original Equipment Manufacturer and say "but, I already pressed 9 for more options and the menus are exactly the same. Can you just replace it?" The answer will be: "please hold." Sometimes hanging out in dark corners. Sometimes following the train tracks. Looking for ways out and ways in and all the while sharing the things seen and heard and done and drawn and written and scorched and healed and teased and caged and dreamed along the way.

7/29/15

Dear (_____)

Dear pet owners,

It's okay to feel a little guilty when your cat or dog is literally pushing your limbs out of your desk chair and off your computer keyboard and twisting your monitor every which way when they want attention, but you're in the middle of browsing an Instagram feed of baby goats frolicking through meadows.  It's okay to feel a little bit like you're cheating on them.  Who wouldn't want to own a successful goat farm full of cuteness and handsome and darling older goats?  Just explain softly when you do close your laptop or your browser that what you want is not in spite of them, but including them.  Your cats would look out for the little baby goats and your dogs will keep the old fellas and ladies in line so they don't wander too far off.  It would be a family.  Even if you have one cat or just one dog or one turtle, it is not a marriage so it's really not cheating anyway.  It's okay to feel a little guilt, the other implication being they're not cute anymore and you are not allowed to say or think it, but the truth is they are.

I just wish I had a goat to raise too.

Sincerely,

an animal lover
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