Hello there! We sure do love our animals, don’t we….. and we know for sure they love us back! That suggests a “relationship” to me. So here’s a fun question: Do you “own” a dog (or other species…)? Do you “have” a dog (in the sense that you “have” a house and a car…)? Or perhaps you are “in relationship” with your animal, just like family members are in relationship. The words “own’, “have” and “relationship” are very different from…..
Ganny: For sure it’s true that my pack was a bunch of characters. There were six of us plus our human person, of course. So if I could count the toes on both my front paws, our pack was one less than all my front toes. Does that make seven? I think it does. We were three big guys, three little fuzzy guys, and one human. Like Bj said, all together we were twenty-four paws and two feet.
This tale began with a deep personal reversal in my life that led to a whole new direction centered on animals. It has been and continues to be enormous fun. More than that, it has opened up a whole new world of learning.
This tale began with a deep personal reversal in my life that led to a whole new direction centered on animals. It has been and continues to be enormous fun. More than that, it has opened up a whole new world of learning. That learning has caused me to ask if perhaps humanity has not, over time, become quite isolated from the rest of created life. We “have” animals and gardens as though they were objects quite separate from us…..
Welcome. My name is Bettejeanne Hammond, author of Ganny’s Journal. I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog about my new book. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here. I’ll be using this blog to interact with you about Ganny’s Journal, expanding on some of the topics in it and posting on some of the ideas related to my book. This is a great…..