One of my many favorite things about Belle is that whenever she gets her leash caught on something –– the gate in the garage passageway, the wheel of a parked car when she’s rounding a corner –– she simply stops and waits to be released.
She never tugs or tries to pull or do anything to aggravate the situation.
She simply waits patiently for me to figure it out and set her free.
Somehow this is vaguely related to the Gerhard Richter documentary I watched most of today. It’s both fascinating and totally boring, thus watching it feels dutiful and virtuous … medicinal event. [For those of you who don’t know, he’s perhaps the most successful living artist.]
I taught my morning yoga client today and then my theater plans got re-arranged for later in the week –– all because of L’amour (not mine) –– so I joined Daniel and Svetlana with Susan and John for tea before again loaning D&S my car so I could seriously nap while they ran off to the Headlands/Highlands.
Before all this I finished a great episode of Nikita which had an awesome quote by a rogue Cleaner (the kind of secret agent who disposes of dead bodies.) Are you ready for it?
“Before it gets clean, it gets messy.”
(Does this relate to Richter’s canvases and the endless squeegeeing of multiple layers of paint? I’m not sure.)
Anyway, I loaned Belle to Daniel and Svetlana for their hiking excursion as an audition to see if they would be worthy watchers of her while I’m in Cancun in April and they passed, bringing her home safely. [Although Svetlana herself vanished, retiring early rather than joining our raw food dinner, yet that, however, was not the test –– bringing Belle safely back was the goal, not Svetlana –– so all is set for April and Mexico.]
I have retired Gerhard Richter for the moment –– it was getting me stuck –– and perhaps one episode of ENLIGHTENED is what I need to complete my night.
Like Belle, I will wait patiently for someone/something (HBO?) to release me, since I’m feeling slightly stuck and needing to be freed.
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