We have forgotten to teach respect and responsibility to our citizens and got lazy and let the king be in charge…hoping that the money would just roll in…..before enlightenment chop wood and carry water – after enlightenment chop wood and carry water.
This post is my parable

I walked a dog for a friend last summer and scooping the poop was not my favourite thing to do… but it is expected, and most people here comply.

I’m surprised that woman didn’t know what the bags were for, unless she was kidding you. Dogs need to come with an instruction manual now??? No wait… that would just cause more litter…

Don’t get me started on the trash! The city is obviously not enforcing the fines??? Maybe time for a petition or something? I don’t know a lot about this kind of thing. But something has to be done. It shouldn’t rest on your shoulders.

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Vered,
I now carry a pocket full of gloves and tissues and hand out bags right and left….it is infuriating….

I’m not sure how I would have handled it but like Mama Zen, I think it’s awesome you gave her bags.

I feel your pain.

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I was thinking about Gandhi on my walk this morning – he spun the thread and cleaned the bathrooms at his residence and he did it with a loving heart. He is still teaching the world as is Martin Luther King.

The question I ask myself is “How best can I serve life?”
I appreciate your words.

It does raise so many questions of how the world is working and if folks can not treat their dogs/community well how are they teaching their children….

Thanks to Obama I was thinking about how to serve my community in the first place and his speech. Thank you for the Bill McKibben suggested reading – he is so astute and helpful to my thinking.
hugs to you!

NO, it’s not pleasant, I sometimes wish I could put him in a diaper when we go out to play (they make them now….LOL). But NO. that is not natural. So, I walk with him, and my bags and gloves in hand.

But you raise an interseting larger point, in the disregard of the environment as a whole. The Bottles, and other junk found when the lkae level was lowered.

IN my park, it amazes me how many people are willing to just toss stuff out of the car window, as they pass, with NO regard to the people that live on this block.

(deep breathing) You’re getting me a little worked up here…! LOL

But I find that my peace is located in the place where I make it OK, by picking it up myself, or better, as you did, letting the offenders KNOW.

And, when I am done……when the moment has passed, I meditate, and send as much good energy as I can.

PS, living here in California, the IOU’s about to go out, wont make the POOH patrol’s job ANY easier….LOL

Until next time…
thank you.
Akiba

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Good ol’ Mr. Goldie is this very day working on a barrier to keep the sight
of neighbor’s dogs’ droppings from the walking path. These dogs are never
walked….use their fenced yard for bathroom. He has in the past called the
City Animal folks about amount of pooh that collects before it is removed…so
far, the City says it has not been sufficient to warrant a fine.

Wisdom to know the difference between what I can change and what I must
accept because I cannot change it. Jews and Arabs, Serbs and Croatians, Hindu
and Muslim, dog lovers, dog cleaners and dog haters…..like the poor, we have
them with us always.

The thing that has always stuck to my shoe has been “why have people had and
continue to have children to the extent that the planet is crowded beyond
resources?”

How have I coped? Set an example, do the proper thing, and keep my mouthshut.

Maybe a Letter to the Editor now and then. Buy another copy of “Maybe One” by Bill McKibben.