[English below.]
En plena crisis sanitaria global, este reportaje nos da un poco de esperanza. Mientras tanto, esperemos que aún más agricultores no caigan en la bancarrota por las grandes perturbaciones que se están experimentando en la cadena local alimentaria (todos los mercados locales llevan dos semanas cerradas).
Mientras tanto, aprovecho la oportunidad de compartir con vostrxs la foto de una criatura vecina que me viene a buscar companía en el campo. Me trae alegría durante estos días tristes y hace que los pasamos mucho menos solas las dos, mientras voy plantando toda la verdura posible, por miedo del duro que podrá ser este año. Es muy parecida de raza y de carácter a nuestra querida Shakti; ya son casi 3 años que nos dejó para siempre, para ir a jugar a pelota en el cielo.
In the middle of weathering the corona virus quarantine all alone, there is one happy side, which is this creature. She belonged to an elderly neighbor who passed away in the fall, and his widow and daughter tell me aat home in the pueblo she would spend the whole day whining and pining for the farm. So even though there is no fence, they have been leaving her out there on her own since the winter (which was quite mild this year). She knows my whistle now and comes running to play ball, eat grass, plop down in the ample ground-cover for a siesta and hunt critters (my over-run, weed-infested jungle is quite a playground for all sorts of animals). She is very similar in race and temperament to our beloved and long-ago departed Shakti. She brings me happiness and purpose in these sad times and I can tell by the major butt-wiggling and jumping around when I open the gate to her that she feels exactly the same.
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“We humans may be brilliant and we may be special, but we are still connected to the rest of life. No one reminds us of this better than our dogs. Perhaps the human condition will always include attempts to remind ourselves that we are separate from the rest of the natural world. We are different from other animals; it’s undeniably true. But while acknowledging that, we must acknowledge another truth, the truth that we are also the same. That is what dogs and their emotions give us– a connection. A connection to life on earth, to all that binds and cradles us, lest we begin to feel too alone. Dogs are our bridge– our connection to who we really are, and most tellingly, who we want to be. When we call them home to us, it’as as if we are calling for home itself. And that’ll do, dogs. That’ll do.”
― Patricia McConnell, For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend
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