Gecko’s Eye

Before you start reminiscing about Clash of the Titans. “The Kraken” would be my dog Winston, and releasing him would pretty much be leaving him unattended for more than 10 seconds.

When I first moved into my current domicile; because I was concerned about him barking in the crate and waking my roommates at 6 AM, I tried leaving him out in the living room to lay on the couch until one of my roommates woke up to keep him company.

It was a good idea… in theory… He wouldn’t bark and he pretty much just kept to himself. Until one day Winston discovered the discovered the scent of compressed rawhide on my roommates red velvet couch.

(cue the bug eyes)

Yup that means I have to replace one RED VELVET COUCH.

Ok so new rules:
1) no more compressed rawhide.
2) no more leaving the dog unattended in the AM after I leave for work.

and everything seems to be going well…

Well Sunday while unloading some things from the Jeep to the house, Winston (hence forth to be known only as the Kraken) decided that my VERY expensive GPS device looked a bit like a chew toy…

UGHHH!!!!!

well what can you do… he didnt know… its my fault.

but is it…

I thought I had left the Garmin in the living room, maybe on the coffee table. Wich would have easily left it as an open target as a potential chew toy looking item. Aparently I didn’t. In the few minutes I was outside Winston went into my bedroom, took the unit off my bed side table, went back out to the living room and began eating the Garmin on the couch.

Other people have told me they think he may have done it out of spite.
So in considering this I have to ask myself yet another question.
In an animal that entertains itself by chasing its own tail and eating dirt, capable of identifying that something is of value to me and destroying it for the sole purpose of spite?

is this way of telling me he is pissed for not being included in the “going out the front door to retreve things from the Jeep”?

Maybe… As much as I identify and accept that I (like many) have managed to choose a pet that is much like me.
Maybe we are more alike that I could even begin to imagine…

Anyone who knows me knows I love a good debate. I don’t even know why… it’s like its built into me right next to “remember to inhale after sneezing” I have even been known to argue a point that I don’t necessarily agree with just to be the devils advocate.

So it goes without saying that any time someone opens a sentence with “what if…”, I should expect to be consumed in opinionated battle.

Most recently the subject of children was re-introduced to my life. The question was presented like this. What if the child you never have was destined to be the next president, John Lennon or Albert Einstein?

Well I think Yakko said it best in his universe song…

Everybody lives on a street in a city
Or a village or a town for what it’s worth.
And they’re all inside a country which is part of a continent
That sits upon a planet known as Earth.
And the Earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains
Which is out there spinning silently in space.
And living on that Earth are the plants and the animals
And also the entire human race.CHORUS
It’s a great big universe
And we’re all really puny
We’re just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
It’s big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It’s a big universe and we’re not.

And we’re part of a vast interplanetary system
Stretching seven hundred billion miles long.
With nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth’s the only one
That has life on it, although we could be wrong.
Across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids
Including meteors and Halley’s Comet too.
And there’s over fifty moons floating out there like balloons
In a panoramic trillion-mile view.And still it’s all a speck amid a hundred billion stars
In a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
It’s sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other
And still that’s just a fraction of the way.
‘Cause there’s a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky
Filled with constellations, planets, moons and stars.
And still the universe extends to a place that never ends
Which is maybe just inside a little jar!CHORUS
It’s a great big universe
And we’re all really puny
We’re just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
* Though we don’t know how it got here
* We’re an important part here
* It’s a big universe and it’s ours!* - In the original script, these lines were:You might think that you’re essential
Try inconsequential
It’s a small world after all!

Pessimist or realist… you be the judge.

The following was written For the King of Fools
who died in Switzerland, 1992

Move
Move as in a dream, till the dream
moves youMove till the move dreams you
Leap, vault and tumble
with a wink at fate and a
kissat danger
Soar!
into a bottomless sky
because gravity
is just another law meant to be
brokenDauntless
Restless
Beheld, yet never meant to be
held
Spin out of reach
till the dream of you
moves us.