Ms. Grace Leathers and Her Rescue Dog

Chris Nelson

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A universal need of all warm blooded mammals is: to love and be loved (in return). Paradoxically, in our modern, fast paced, society, it is a need which often goes unfulfilled. This is attested to/evinced by data on percentages of the population living alone and unattached: 50% alone, in Canada, where I live in a retirement community. Before industrial society came into being, in days of feudalism, the problem situation facing humanity was characterized/portrayed as being one of battles between rival lords of manors, vying for supremacy, and the exploits of knight errant employed in their service. The best simile/metaphor for this type of fighting in feudal society, was seen to be that of an "obstacle course", where knight errantry often involved knights in white armor
taking on first, one opposing knight in black armor, and then another, and then another in a jousting match on a field of battle. Thus the obstacle course analogy: successful knights would overcome all obstacles, i.e. all rival knights in the way of a victory for their lord of the manor. Each knight would be identified by distinctive insignia/coat of arms that was unique to his lord, that way each knight could tell friends from foes. This was an exciting but dangerous life, and knights were the heroes of the story, as in the Legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, or in John Bunyan's Christian book, Pilgrim's Progress. Contrast this with the metaphor for life and living, under modern industrial society, where there is a widespread feeling of isolation even in the midst of many. What is the reason for this feeling of isolation and alienation? Could it be that it stems from the nature of work or the workplace (interacting alone with a computer screen) - or the rules and laws governing interpersonal relations of people living in communities (a don't touch me society)? - or, sometimes, over-reliance on "passive" forms of entertainment which connects people to the medium, but disconnects people from each other? Is there any metaphor for the new problem situation facing people in our modern, industrial society, namely: alone and lonely? You may have heard of the story of the famous shipwrecked sailor, Robinson Crusoe (book by Daniel Defoe), marooned all by himself, on an uncharted desert island? Who made the best of his situation by building things to satisfy all his physical economic needs? Much like we have built an economy that satisfies all our physical needs. Crusoe, did not stop there, he went on to satisfy his spiritual needs, by noting all the marvels of nature, and narrow escapes from storms, that made him believe that providence was on his side, converting him to Christianity. Then, providence did him another good turn.
A cannibal, by the name of Man Friday, was fortuitously left on the island, by an accident of fate, and Robinson, now had a companion, whom he educated into Christianity from his heathen/uncivilized ways. The functional role that Man Friday fulfilled for Robinson - his best friend - in many ways bears a resemblance to the the "role" of pets - especially that most loyal of pets, the dog - play as friends for people, in isolated modern society. If Man Friday was Robinson Crusoe's loyal best friend, then could we not with justification, say, that for people, esp. isolated ones, dogs likewise serve as man's best friends and loyal companions? Thus our need to love and be loved, even when we are denied "the real thing" - a person to call our own - has a way of "going underground" and finding the next best substitute for the real thing - which oftener than not - turns out to be a beloved pet (s). Dog may not be quite as desirable as a human partner, but given that so many people have no human partners, dog has, in effect, become: man's best friend!
It is to be hoped that we humans reciprocate by also being: dog's best friend! Knowing that genuine love is always a two-way street!

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• Chris Nelson
• Fiction

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• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 15 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669835530
• Langue: English

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Ms. Grace Leathers and her Rescue Dog
 
A Modern Fairy Tale
(there but for the Grace of God, I - rescued dog for it was by Ms. Grace , that I was rescued!)
 
 
 
Chris Nelson
 
Copyright © 2022 by Chris Nelson.
 
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
 
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Rev. date: 07/11/2022
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
I Wouldn’t Give This Life of Mine to Even a Dog!!!!!
On Becoming a Real Dog/Leaving My Human Dog Self Behind/Ah! What a Feeling!
Leather love at first sight/the trip to the pet store and walk back home/Chrissie-pooch is/Feels himself a lucky dog/and so he is!
Trans-Mogrification/From Human Dog to Real Dog and Back Again?\To Melt A Heart\ My Ingenious Plan to Make Myself into Something Loved, Loveable, and Endearing, For Ms. Grace Leathers (so she will desire my love as much as I desire hers!)
Ms. Grace Leathers and Chrissie-the-Pooch/How They Grow on Each Other/Bond and Become Emotionally Attached to Each Other/ Not as Doting, Fawning, Mistress and Her Little Lord Fauntleroy of a Pampered Dog!/But as A Dog Willing to Learn, Grow, and Mature!
Man’s Best Friend\Origins, Development, and RECENT DOMESTICATION, from Canine-Lupus, or Near Wolfish Beginnings TEN MILLION YEARS AGO!
Let love grow between them!\if There Is A Strong Liking Between Mistress and Dog, Much Will Be Forgiven/and Mutual Need and Uncritical Acceptance will prevail over Fault Finding!
Coming Up In My World!/Ms Grace’s (And My) Bed!\No Longer the Dog Mattress!\What Do These Auspicious New Arrangements Harbinger/Augur About Things to Come??!!!
How the Little Dog/Made Himself into Something Loved, Loveable, Endearing but Especially Worthy of Ms. Grace//Will She Continue To Grace Him By Saying “Yes!” to Him While Still in His Canine State? It’s Either “Yes!” or He Must Remain Forever A Dog!
About the author:
An Innocent Man: How It All Began!
Smile Gracious
A smile is giving a piece of yourself.
It reflects what you think, your feelings.
No matter how much, or how often, or how strong.
In any situation, any context, any moment of the day,
It is the good man/good woman way.
It is one thing to be statement dressing,
(The softest, most supple, most shiny, way!)
A smile, though, is innocence with one’s heart to be confessing.
It is sharing our feelings from our innermost heart spaces,
Shall we call it, being: Smile Gracious?
An Innocent Man: How It All Began
Trivial book (by well intentioned man)
+ Trivial breakdown by good man (became ill under pressure).
+ Enters + Intervenes + Escalates (Powerful Bad Being).
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Molehill Becomes A Mountain (i.e. weather troubles).
− an “innocent man” has been “persecuted for more than 30 years”, due to “misplaced blame”:
− colours can’t cause troubles
− paper cannot cause troubles
− words cannot cause troubles
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Troubles can only be caused by beings or entities with the power to cause and the capability to form an intent to cause them.
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Who is the Powerful Bad Being identified above as the cause and source of troubles? I can tell you right now that it is NOT me! I would most definitely think that the being/entity with the BIG POWER and the EVIL INTENT is the being/entity who MAKES THE SUN BLINK FROM 93 MILLION MILES AWAY, that’s how far the sun is away from THE EARTH!
Again, I can tell you right now, that I have absolutely ZERO POWER.
If you think I make the sun blink on myself, to my own great detriment, I advise you to seek help! Having established that I have neither any power, nor any intent, I am a human being just like you, with one difference: I have a bloody great load foisted on my back since the day I was born. This does not make me any better or any worse than you, just more challenged by a solar mystery that I can’t explain. If I was in the frying pan initially, after my worded Episode, where I “said” many foolish “words”, but did “not act” on them, I fell into the proverbial fire on account of someone else “did act on them” partially (i.e. the weather). That someone must clearly be a being/entity with the requisite power and evil intent, to do those things. As neither of those two prerequisites apply to me, I am asking everyone who reads this NOT to MISPLACE BLAME ONTO ME!