I've done it again. I've booked a shoot every day this week, and perhaps two on Thursday. And this after working all day in the factory. But how does one say no? I am already feeling it in my bones. I don't get to bed until late after a shoot because I am all wound up. And I don't sleep well the night before a shoot because I'm anxious. I get no exercise and I eat poorly. It is a quadruple whammy.
Dogs don't live very well in the wild. You can watch the nature shows and get some idea that life in the wild is cute, mother's caring for their newborns, siblings tumbling around in the playful establishing of dominance. And then, of course, comes danger, and the caring, wily mother either gets them all to safety or loses a pup and is stoically sad but determined. Life in the wild. What they don't show is the day to day misery of it, the matts of ticks that build up in their ears and under their fur, the parasites that eat up their insides and make them weak, the infected wounds that plague them. It is constant.
There was to be a point to that. I think it is that domestic dogs have it made or that I have it much better than a wild dog, or perhaps that regardless, there is no escaping external misery. I don't remember. I'm going to have to focus more. I have much to do. I'm an artist, goddamn it.
the image of ticks in the ear and parasites in the gut will follow me all day....
ReplyDeletePlease, don't start about animals suffering.
ReplyDeleteI can barely take yours.
Beautiful photo.
Have a good day, weird guy!
And much happy suffering with the shoots!
XXX
Ah see! Rhonda feels the same way about animals suffering.
You will loose us if yo keep that up...!
Famous Quote by Hemingway
ReplyDelete"From observation I would say that people may possibly be divided into two general groups; those who, to use one of the terms of the jargon of psychology, identify themselves with, that is, place themselves in the position of, animals, and those who identify themselves with human beings. I believe, after experience and observation, that those people who identify themselves with animals, that is, the almost professional lovers of dogs, and other beasts, are capable of greater cruelty to human beings than those who do not identify themselves readily with animals." - Hemingway
Some people can identify themselves with, or feel pity for, more than one species I think.
ReplyDeleteI only have trouble identifying myself with creatures that are only on sight definitely 'human'.
Like the pitbull/human kind.
"All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault." - Hemingway
ReplyDeleteDrunks wisdom?
ReplyDeleteI was only referring to the descriptive writing of CS...not the suffering of animals. Jeesh guys! Great quotes Sean!
ReplyDeleteAnd sometimes they go mad in the summer because of the flies that swarm around their eyes trying to lay their eggs.
ReplyDeleteYou think?
ReplyDeleteIf you see the little starving children in Africa, it seems they get used to it. They ignore it.
But maybe that's because hunger is so painful, that distracts a bit...