Dog Behavior - Dogs help us to live more simply
Let your boat of life be light, packed only with what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and to love you, a cat, a dog, enough to eat and enough to wear
- Jerome ? 1859 1927
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In case anyone thinks otherwise, all kinds of people have dogs, including people in the voluntary simplicity movement. I can't find anything anywhere (If it can't be found in 15 minutes of surfing, it doesn't exist, ha ha.) that talks about how dogs figure into the movement but I figure they've got to. I mean I spend more than an hour a day in parks having conversations with perfect strangers. If you'd asked me three months ago if I would have time for, or want, that I'd have laughed but here I am, and that time is pretty much the best part of each day for me.
Here are a few things I have found that connect dogs to simplicity:
"While reading it [an article called "The Best Things in Life Aren't Things" in The World magazine] I was reminded of a story told in a sermon by one of my colleagues. He related that a family he had visited had just bought a $400,00 house in a trendy suburb. Both the husband and wife left the house at 6:00 AM each morning for high-paying jobs in the city. On their way, they dropped off their two young children at daycare. During the day they had a service come in to walk their dog. Each night at 6:30, they picked up their children, consumed a "carryout" for dinner, and fell into bed stressed and exhausted with no time to enjoy their children, their house, themselves, or their lives. The minister's analysis of the situation was that they were laboring to provide a $400,00 kennel for the dog since he was the only one in the house enough to really live there, and he, being cooped up, was none too happy either." Found here
"Having an unfettered conversation is, after all, at the heart of simplicity. So many people have forgotten how to do it, said Andrews, a middle-aged woman dressed comfortably in cotton shirt and pants and walking sandals, her small white dog napping in a nearby plant bed." Found here.
No obvious dog references here that I could find but a great blog by somebody who knows Who really needs to learn from the simplicity movement.
- Jerome ? 1859 1927
Found here
In case anyone thinks otherwise, all kinds of people have dogs, including people in the voluntary simplicity movement. I can't find anything anywhere (If it can't be found in 15 minutes of surfing, it doesn't exist, ha ha.) that talks about how dogs figure into the movement but I figure they've got to. I mean I spend more than an hour a day in parks having conversations with perfect strangers. If you'd asked me three months ago if I would have time for, or want, that I'd have laughed but here I am, and that time is pretty much the best part of each day for me.
Here are a few things I have found that connect dogs to simplicity:
"While reading it [an article called "The Best Things in Life Aren't Things" in The World magazine] I was reminded of a story told in a sermon by one of my colleagues. He related that a family he had visited had just bought a $400,00 house in a trendy suburb. Both the husband and wife left the house at 6:00 AM each morning for high-paying jobs in the city. On their way, they dropped off their two young children at daycare. During the day they had a service come in to walk their dog. Each night at 6:30, they picked up their children, consumed a "carryout" for dinner, and fell into bed stressed and exhausted with no time to enjoy their children, their house, themselves, or their lives. The minister's analysis of the situation was that they were laboring to provide a $400,00 kennel for the dog since he was the only one in the house enough to really live there, and he, being cooped up, was none too happy either." Found here
"Having an unfettered conversation is, after all, at the heart of simplicity. So many people have forgotten how to do it, said Andrews, a middle-aged woman dressed comfortably in cotton shirt and pants and walking sandals, her small white dog napping in a nearby plant bed." Found here.
No obvious dog references here that I could find but a great blog by somebody who knows Who really needs to learn from the simplicity movement.
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