Five pleasant things in gloomy times

[heliopausa]

What rotten times we live in.  The natural world is still beautiful, but the political/social world seems to be unravelling everywhere

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[flemmings]

The dogs do go on with their doggy life in spite of politicians. At least there's that.

[heliopausa]

They do (as in the "Musee des beaux arts"). Thanks for reminding me. :)

And now I see that it was an actual quote from. :)

[flemmings]

Of course, the next line *does* reference the torturer as well as his horse, but oh well.

[heliopausa]

Too true. :(

[todayiamadaisy]

Oh, the penguin one is lovely. What a nice sort of little friend to have.

Years ago I saw an interview with a wildlife photographer who spent several days in the ocean with a sea lion, which he expected to be quite aggressive. Instead, it seemed to think he was some sort of weird looking sea lion and tried to teach him to swim and hunt. So that was nice.

[heliopausa]

Yes indeed, re the penguin story. :)
And so is the sea-lion story, as well as really intriguing, to ponder how things might appear to a sea-lion, how it makes sense of the world.