On a long walk through deep woods you rarely think about property lines, but a logging project on your own land will bring them into sharp focus. You don’t want to make the mistake of cutting your neighbor’s trees. In late fall, when hunting season.
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun.
Along the gravel paths, the trees have been meticulously labeled, scrawled by a volunteer’s bold pen on wood that has been cut, planed, and sanded smooth.
The air smelled vibrant. As we approached Simmons Pond to the calls of the flitting few wintering birds, we met a gentleman fishing for trout. “They stock the pond, and I caught one.” On a tether in the water was a shiny, vibrant trout, swimming in place. “If I catch another, I’ll take ‘em home for supper; one for me, one for my wife. And I cook ‘em maself. If I don’t catch a second, I’ll throw that guy back.”
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Well isn’t this a sign of the times.
In the video below we see two dogs are frothing at the mouth, ready to go at each other with only a fence separating them… then the fence is slowly pulled back and… nothing… absolutely nothing.
Now, replace the
fence with
social media and you’ve pretty much got all the bluster and anger of the internet age, juxtaposed to to what happens to all that ‘enhanced’ vitriol when actually standing face-to-face with a fellow human being.
Welcome to the internet age.
People will seemingly flex their ‘
Twitter Muscles‘ or unleash (dog pun) their ‘