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Happy New Year.

My puppy, Mandy, is about as graceful as a flying pig. Granted, pigs don't fly, but you can use your imagination. Case in point: in the past week, she has fallen off of two beds while a) playing or b) being moved because she was taking up more space than the human (three or four times her size--) that was trying to sleep within said bed. Silly puppy, beds are for people!

Should anyone ever find reason to ask me why I love a certain person (I'm not talking about a certain person here--though I might as well be--but rather just any person that someone might, for whatever reason, want to know the specific reason why I love them), I will refer them to page 119 of Robert L. Short's excellent book, The Gospel According to Peanuts where it says:

Both love and faith can never give a reason for their love; they can only say, This is my beloved (Song of Sol. 5:16). But perhaps this is just as well: for if the lover, or believer, could give us a reason for loving this love, such as her great beauty or charm or wealth, then it is quite obvious that the lover would not actually be in love with his love, but that his real heart's desire would be beauty or charm or wealth or whatever his reason might be for loving the supposed object of his love. Thus it is impossible for one to have this kind of ulterior motive and remain a true lover...

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So, hah!