Through the tears, in memory of a four-legged, furry, friend.

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Saturday September 08, 2012 · 6:15 PM PDT

2012/09/08 · 18:15

At the moment we say hello to and fall in love with a new pet, we must, at that same moment, recognize that saying hello also means saying goodbye, because our small pets are not meant to outlive us. And so it begins.

I have learned along the path of my life that with every new loss, we grieve again all of the losses that came before it. This makes it important to fully experience the grief every time, as I believe that this is the only mechanism to keep all of our losses from eventually sinking us under their accumulated weight. It also means, for me, that the older I get, the more intensely I hurt.

Some will believe I am just being overly dramatic or pitiful, and that is not my intent. My intention with this diary is to examine and express what I am experiencing now, to get it out of me, to externalize what is tearing me up internally. If you choose not to read, I won't be insulted or offended in any way, as I am writing this - selfishly - for myself.

The real pain is below the curlicue.

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Sunday June 10, 2012 · 6:07 PM PDT

2012/06/10 · 18:07

I scared my mother today.

Whilst visiting with my mom in the kitchen this morning, scraps of Fox Noise drifted out from the family room where my father was alternately listening and napping. Although I mostly tried to ignore it, one comment... so blatantly false, so patently ridiculous, and so personally offensive to me, leaked into my consciousness.

And of course, on this "fair and balanced" news site, this statement went unchallenged. Since I was not watching - and honestly, I was only listening with the half of an ear I could not plug up lest I dropped my share of the conversational ball with my mother - I did not get the exact quote, nor who said it, but it went something like this: Public employees are paid much higher salaries than private employees. And it was related in a perfectly matter-of-fact, conversational tone. It was just taken for granted, like the sun will rise tomorrow.

I very nearly spontaneously combusted. Dive below the orange curlicue for my rant.

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Through the tears, in memory of a four-legged, furry, friend.

Public employees are paid more than employees in the private sector?