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First Anniversary/Dogs

20 Tuesday Nov 2012

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Yesterday marked my first year wedding anniversary with my husband. I can’t quite believe it’s gone by so quickly and yet so much has happened. While there have been many wonderful and many hard things about this first year of marriage, my husband and I both agree that the very best part has been adding our dog to our family. Therefore, it only seemed fitting that she should accompany us to the beach this weekend.

Her face pretty much says it all – she was completely unamused as we trekked her up and down the beach against her will.

Our love for our dog is rather intense. My husband will happily whip out his phone and show pictures to anyway who so much as smiles at us. Working from home, our little pup is by my side almost all the time. All of my thinking about my dog this week had me thinking about these three books:

Harry the Dirty Dog, Gene Zion
The Watchers, Dean Koontz (truthfully, this one is too scary for me)
Greyfriars Bobby, Eleanor Atkinson

And this video

We’re so thankful for our little bug and for the joy she’s brought us this first year of marriage. We worked with great people at Washington Animal Rescue League to get the perfect dog for us.

I Wish I Were…

31 Wednesday Oct 2012

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In honor of this week’s Weekly Writing Challenge: I Wish I Were.

Adapted From “I Wish” by Skee-Lo (now in the subjective)

Hey, this is radio station W-S-K-E-E
We’re takin’ calls off the wish line
Making all your wacky wishes come true

Hello

I wish I were just a teensy bit taller, just a ¼ inch. Then, I wouldn’t feel guilty when I say I’m 5’6 instead of 5’5 and ¾”. Plus, my husband and I might not look so off in pictures.

I wish I were a baller. Then my husband wouldn’t have to go to work and we could spend all winter in Vermont.

I wish I had a girl who looked good – Oh, but I do…

I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a ’64 Impala. Really, who needs a ’64 Impala when you have a ’92 Wrangler.

Oh, I wish I were…

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13 Saturday Oct 2012

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Today, my husband, my father-in-law and I went out fishing at a nearby lake, Little Seneca. We were accompanied by our ever-adorable, fluffy white dog, Cricket.

After tromping around the bushes in one direction and then going back in the other direction, we eventually found a clearing and set up camp. Cricket set off exploring. As she wandered closer and closer to the water’s edge, sniffing as she went, I walked over beside her in case she fell or jumped in the water. Then, I saw tucked away near some tall grass a small idol of the Hindu god Ganesh.

I pointed it out to my husband and his dad, and my husband saw another idol just a little a long from the first one – this one broken.

Less enraptured by the strange find, the two men went back to fishing. As I am wont to do when I have something to share, I promptly called my parents to tell them about my find. I discussed the options – a death, a party, a festival?

When I attended William and Mary, I was a Religious Studies major. It is about as useless as it sounds. Essentially, I wanted to study all the cultures of the world and this major was the closest I could get. My second year there I took a class called “Hindu Gods and Goddesses.” (A look at the 2012-2013 Undergraduate Course Catalog tells me, more than ten years later, the course is now called “Gods and Goddesses of India.”) While I don’t recall my professor’s name, I do remember he was a tall, slender blond man who spoke with great enthusiasm of his trips to India. With his shaggy hair and his Birkenstocked feet, he looked like an academic hippie. Despite taking the class, I seem only to recall what my professor looked like and what he was wearing – nothing at all to explain the small idol on the shore of Little Seneca Lake.

When I got home many hours later, a quick Google search returned no records of recent deaths. Another search told me that Ganesh’s birthday was recently celebrated. His birthday can be marked by great celebration and this year it fell on September 19. The festivities can last up to eleven days, and at the conclusion of the holiday, tradition dictates that followers of Ganesh take idols or murtis to nearby bodies of water and immerse them. What I thought was a strange find was really not at all. Rather, if you were to find Ganesh anywhere at this time of year, it would be near, or in, water. According to the Hindu American Foundation, as of 2008, there are 2.29 million Hindus living in the United States. The Association of Religion Data Archives showed that as of 2010 in Montgomery County, MD, there are approximately 6,500 Hindus. Ganesh is one of the most popular Hindu gods and is widely worshiped. That means throughout Maryland there could be any number of small Ganesh statues at the bottom of lakes or sitting near the shore. And I thought I had stumbled upon something unique!

Despite my disappointment at not uncovering a great mystery, it was fun to do some research. I really miss studying different cultures and religions. This little discovery has me itching to write a research paper on the indigenous religions of Papua New Guinea or the Day of the Dead in Mexico. Rather than feeling exhausted at the end of a long day, I now feel wide awake and ready to write for hours. On the other hand, Cricket fell asleep in my arms in the car…

…and has hardly moved since. Oh, to be able to shut off my brain in such a manner.

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