Thanks for another great installment, Lavender. Sorry it's taken a while to comment: I've been off galavanting again, but got back a couple of days ago. After making myself complete a long-pending LJ project, I am browsing the f-list.
I want to say how affected I was by the tale of your care for that pigeon. I think it says a lot about you as a person. Not that you're sentimental, nor a person who naturally goes to pieces over a suffering animal, but that you are, I don't know, a respecter of living things, respectful enough to go out of your way to take action if you see a living thing you might be able to help. That you would do all this to lighten the passing of a dying animal impresses me very much. "All what?" you are probably scoffing, brushing it off, but I can't think of anyone but my sister-in-law (who is intensely, crazy-nuts about animals) who would take that sort of trouble over that pigeon. I'm betting most people, like me, would feel saddened by the pigeon's plights, think poignant, stoic thoughts about death and dying at the sight of it there, but walk on. I'd turn my face and attention away, leaving behind what is painful or bothersome. Go you, I say, and those like you. Doing such things you raise the level of life.
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Date: 2009-10-30 04:57 pm (UTC)I want to say how affected I was by the tale of your care for that pigeon. I think it says a lot about you as a person. Not that you're sentimental, nor a person who naturally goes to pieces over a suffering animal, but that you are, I don't know, a respecter of living things, respectful enough to go out of your way to take action if you see a living thing you might be able to help. That you would do all this to lighten the passing of a dying animal impresses me very much. "All what?" you are probably scoffing, brushing it off, but I can't think of anyone but my sister-in-law (who is intensely, crazy-nuts about animals) who would take that sort of trouble over that pigeon. I'm betting most people, like me, would feel saddened by the pigeon's plights, think poignant, stoic thoughts about death and dying at the sight of it there, but walk on. I'd turn my face and attention away, leaving behind what is painful or bothersome. Go you, I say, and those like you. Doing such things you raise the level of life.