Sub-optimal.
Good morning. And what a morning it is. A hare with a fox in hot pursuit races across the road in front of us. The hare heads off into the apple orchards. The fox, seeing a human, thinks better of giving chase. It reverses its direction and heads back into the hawthorn thicket. Sophie, who is enjoying the sunshine, decides that pursuit of the fox would be a sub-optimal decision.
Dog and master put the world to rights. We've been up early talking to folks in Dubai and Vienna. World events do not trouble Sophie. She has a Roman Road to walk along, grass verges to explore and a thousand scents to savour.
She also has croissant ends to relish.... and this morning two sets of municipal refuse workers who greet her enthusiastically.
After that excitement there's ample cause for a restorative 'moment' in the garden.
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Bertie just can't understand how chasing a fox could ever be a "sub-optimal decision"...
I would have loved to see the fox/hare chase, especially as the hare escaped. I have been pondering the video about lost and found in Japan, which gives me a "yes, but" feeling. It is true that many lost things do find their way home here, but not all - my daughter lost her phone in Shibuya twice and it came back both times, but my absent-minded professor of a husband has managed to permanently lose at least two wallets and a suit (he left it on the bullet-train platform) - and after thirty years here, I think the whole "Japan is a uniquely collaborative and moral society" line does far more harm than good.
Hari Om
...and I appreciated the Mars article - and the lovely image! YAM xx
Wise girl, making choices,
Sophie, Inca says you are one very lucky girl - your life is filled with excitement and so many things to sniff and chase, or not if you don't feel it's worth the effort! Curly croissant ends are the icing on the cake! In fact there are only the Jaffa cakes missing!
Lovely day here too, and we've spent the morning with a friend, at a café in the sunshine, down by the beach. Inca had so much fuss made of her she didn't want to leave. Although there were no Jaffa cakes, there were some little biscuits to be shared.
Walking along a Roman road in the fresh air and sunshine with lovely Sophie would put the world to rights at that moment in time.
The last photo is a picture of contentment! I recently read an article on BBC about stoicism as an approach to life's difficulties. Sophie's approach is one I would like to emulate.
How happy that Sophie interrupted the fox chasing the hare (not an opinion shared by the fox, no doubt). A few years ago looking out our kitchen window, I saw a rabbit dart from the thicket and pause in the grass, breathing heavily. It was obviously quite tired but soon took off again just moments before a fisher (like a weasel and very rarely seen) appeared from the thicket in obvious pursuit. I hammered on the window and the fisher turned back to the thicket with an air of reluctance. The pictures of Sophie are all delightful, but the third one is especially appealing.
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