Barking Up the Wrong Tree
We all make mistakes, we all bark up the wrong tree, so why do we rub our noses into it? Enough self-flagellation: forgive and forget, well maybe not forget, but at least take a rain check. These dogs have the right idea. They can be totally focused on a squirrel one minute and be interested in another dog's butt in the next moment. Everyone knows I'm a major cat lover but I'm dog crazy too. On a recent walk,these dogs taught me to look at a situation a different way. I was pissed off at myself for wavering over an offer to go to down south on a holiday. While I hemmed and hawed, my friend asked someone else and I missed out. They're jetting off this Friday, and me? I'm okay, because every dog does have its day.
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 1/26/2010 10:22 AM 
Categories: Nature, Westchester County, Holiday, Humor, Photography
Tags: barking up the wrong tree
Categories: Nature, Westchester County, Holiday, Humor, Photography
Tags: barking up the wrong tree
LOL and great pic! We can learn much from dogs.
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Hey Layla...I love your perpetual fascination and sense of AWE.
DOG is reverse pespective of GOD...eh?
When we succeed at rapidly shifting our focus like the dog can is it ADHD (ya snooze ya lose) or an evolving ability to adapt? ...was it Bequi?
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Bequia. I'd like to there right now
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A good way to look at the situation. I bet a better opportunity will come by soon.
I realized at 8 a.m. this morning, after working into the night and early a.m. again, that I cannot force a novel to happen sooner than it will happen.
The whole thing will take me until May or August, and I have to accept that it will have taken me a year to write it. Which is actually quite fast, all things considered.
I feel I know how to identify problems, fix them, and continue. A methodical approach, broken down into a million pieces.
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Re: your writing. You've been so disciplined. You're wise to allow it to unfold, one page at time.
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More wonderful philosophy spun out of the moment, out of real experience and bursting forth in this great insight: "Sometimes, it's okay to bark up the wrong tree."
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