Monday's with Mozzie

I believe that the best way to free oneself from anger is to wish for the welfare of those who cause that anger. I know it’s counter-intuitive, but given enough time and repetition, it actually works. One day, you wake up and realize the toxic anger has been miraculously replaced with a sense of peace. Neutral tranquility from which you can make rational decisions that effectively respond to, or ignore malicious behavior. To be honest, I’m not sure if this is an actual spiritual practice, or simply a means to reroute neuronal pathways that are otherwise hardwired for the debilitating flow of negative emotions like hatred and rage. It probably doesn’t matter. The result is the same. Or just bite their ankles and be done with it!

-Mozzie

I can promise you I’m not yelling at the fence although that may be what it looks like on this side. My eyesight isn’t what it used to be but Chewy assures me there is something there because he won’t shut up about it. So many choices. Run, bark, run some more, jump, climb, bark again, and run back and forth. This could go on all evening.

-Mozzie

Springtime is the land awakening. These April winds are the morning yawn that stirs the hundreds of mosquitos alive and ready to suck me dry.

-Mozzie

I mentally rehearse for catastrophes. At any given moment I imagine a wide array of armageddons, as well as how I might respond. The fact that none of these calamities has ever happened, doesn’t change my obsessive, some might say, paranoid, thinking. Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, asteroids, zombies – I am ready! Can’t you tell?

-Mozzie

You only live once. A common expression that got me thinking. So maybe the real question isn’t whether we live only once. Maybe we should be wondering how many times we die and become something new. Something else.

-Mozzie

There are a lot of things money can’t buy but can’t you buy me a squirrel this year? If nothing else then let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal!

-Mozzie

You have to ask yourself, is that snack safe? Because every snack you make, every meal you bake, every bite you take…I’ll be watching it.

-Mozzie

You can be the most beautiful biped in the world and everybody around you sees and feels the light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don’t feel it as well, then all of that doesn’t matter.

-Mozzie

I don’t mind telling you, it’s been an awesome way to live. Giving the bipeds complete extraordinary power over my well-being. As long as I know I am doing my very best, I’ll be fine. My value is strong with them and I truly love them. If you’ve gone to the trouble of reading this post, you are a remarkable biped or related to me. Or both.

-Mozzie

Did you miss me? No? That’s okay. I thought I’d take a sabbatical that bipeds sometimes talk about. It really wasn’t much different for me since I still do the same things I always do. Like, I don’t always bark but when I do, it’s for no reason at all.-Mozzie

-Mozzie