Sometimes, the words beg to come out. In my head I try to organize them, and then I get stuck. Stuck with the trying to put things in order. At that point I just have to let them come how they are going to come.
This is one of those times.
First, an article from the New York Times from this past week. The author wrote, "The Federal Aviation Administration recorded 18 collisions between aircraft and diamondback terrapins between 1997 and 2007... None caused damage to the aircraft."
A diamondback terrapin is a turtle. Considering the largest on record, a female (which grow larger than the males) was nine inches long, collision seemed an odd word choice - no matter how small the aircraft, or how fast that terrapin was barreling toward it.
Another article I read this past week, this one from the Christian Science Monitor said that Malaysia Airlines had taken the step of banning babies from its first class cabin.
Apparently they have solved the problem of sound carrying through the mesh curtain that separates the last row of one cabin from the first row in the other.
But how will they tell someone who wants to pay for first class seats (as opposed to being upgraded) they cannot, if they have an infant with them.
Not that it matters to me. I learned long ago how to quiet my mind, such that sounds (and self-absorbed seatmates in first class) do not keep me from sleeping when I wish to sleep.
In other news, I don't recall when I started watching the Dog Whisperer (on Hulu), but I've seen all the episodes now. And not once did I ever have the thought that any of the dogs on the show were being hurt. So the other day when I Googled Cesar Millan, I was surprised to find sites that think what he does is horrible. (But their "evidence" was so illogical that it was laughable.)
I've practiced what he teaches, and without an e-collar, without any choke chains, and really with nothing more than a wave of my hand, I now have two well-behaved dogs.
I came to the conclusion that the animal behaviorists watch Fox News.
I'll stay team Cesar.
