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Pet Deer

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"You want adventure. Every fiber of your being is screaming for it. Where do you find it? You find it in the voluntary adoption of responsibility." -- Jordan Peterson And some additional context to add is that the priorities for responsibility start with and for yourself. The deer in the neighborhood have become tame, quite tame. I think we are at the point where I can train them to eat from my hand. I dont feed them, but it is clear others in the neighborhood are feeding them. I am questioning whether it is right or wrong. It is not as simple as what you might initially think, running through loops of listening to the mezmoring voice David Attenborough anthropomorphising wildlife. Or what you learned as you slammed into a deer with your car. It's not that clear. The deer are not running out in front of cars in the neighborhood. They act more like the neighborhood geese, having full reign of the lawns, driveways and streets. We had a goose that demanded sovereignt...
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Busy. I shouldn't be blogging. This week will be a blur as last week was. This weekend, I flew up to NY to pick up my truck and stuff for my new house. There were terrible weather delays in Detroit and I missed my connection. That is not really that big of a deal, but since the weather was bad all day in Detroit, lots of other folks were stranded overnight as well. I found a hotel (miraculously) about 30 minutes away (turned out to be 1.5 hours because of night construction). Anyway, I drove back down to Atlanta with my truck. It feels weird driving my truck in Duluth. It was a tight schedule for a weekend, the weather delay didn't help. I am moving. I have to fix the plumbing in my new house though before I can really move in. The new roof is going on today. The new HVAC system is already in. I caught a view of a nice Sundog amongst the urban sprawl of Atlanta. I was thinking of the 100s of thousands of people who could have seen it, how many did? When you travel a lot by ai...