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Godspeed to your Grandmother 🙏

I had the good fortune to be able to be with both my parents when they were dying. I got to hear the Depression survival and WWII stories of both my parents and It was, and will remain a benefit that I know many people are not afforded.

Four of your choices I have already read.....(I spend a lot of time dancing around the Twitters) but I will make sure to read the others.

Thank you.

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Hey Charlie,

Wonderful to see you.... here's a bit more about Grandpa I wrote in 2012.... he sure would have loved knowing you are in the "Big Sky". http://aconventionallife.blogspot.com/2012/02/hands.html

GB left me with this "life" nugget when she turned 90. Not sure why it resonated with me so deeply but it changed me profoundly. She looked at me and paused, stuck her index out and bounced it up and down, and with the cadence of her words she said, "you know.... everything works out"!

She was right.... lets leave the small stuff where it is.

Hope to see you soon!

J

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So nice you could be there with your grandma. You are very fortunate and it sounds like she is too.

That's a great line. My twist on it is this: "It's the year 2021, and I keep the internet at arm's length, giving the data trackers, algorithms and hidden manipulators very little to feed on. This is also an admission of defeat."

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I've been steeped in animal shelter culture for the last ten years, and so many concepts - regulatory capture, DEI/"Defunding" initiatives, market dynamics, developmental psychology, multiculturalism, etc. etc. etc. - get filtered through that lens. And like most vols/employees/rescuers, my feelings on each subject are STRONG ;).

Tom Ley is right, especially from my vantage in Texas. And he didn't say it, but I will - it's breed - or rather, *perceived* breed - preference that drives so much of this insane behavior.

In the course of a single week I can feel like PETA is maybe right and no one should have any pets, and then later be a firm believer in the egalitarian, cross-cultural JOY of facilitating shelter dog adoptions. The New York article makes me feel the former, but the Defector article makes me feel a lot better. Not everyone in New York is nuts!

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