Ask your dog . . .

In Thor's day's mailbox on a mild Winter morning ahead of another weekend of cold and a week of rain . . .

Today is the 142nd birth anniversary of A. A. Milne. The author of Winnie the Pooh was born in 1882 London, England.

I see today that everyone on earth / wants the answer to the same question / but none has the language to ask it / Dogs know the answer / by never asking the question / but can't advise us. – Jim Harrison, Songs of Unreason, Copper Canyon Press, 2011. For more Jim Harrison.

The Earth herself is now angry and she is taking revenge with no quarter. – Susan Murphy

As mindfulness becomes steady and observant, the constant change of all physical and mental phenomena is increasingly apparent...Trying to hold on to what changes becomes like rope burn, clinging becomes a cause of suffering. – Jack Kornfield

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said an excited Tigger, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" Said a sleepy Pooh: "What's for breakfast?"

The snow began here this morning / and though the questions that have assailed us all day remain / – not a single answer has been found – / walking out now into the silence and light / feels like one.

– Mary Oliver, “First Snow” in American Primitive, Back Bay Books; First Edition,1983.