No, really, what's your name?

Here’s a pooch who’s more optimistic, probably, than you or I or the kid down the street would be if those were the familiar words heard every day….

OK, with a dog, maybe you need to repeat “Get down!” more often than you’d like.

With a person, with a child, invoke some humanity in yourself before you carelessly diminish it in someone else….

I recall that Joe Namath recalled  “ ’Til I was 13, I thought my name was ‘Shut Up.’ ”

Maybe he was mostly kidding….

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/09/dances-with-dogs.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/09/with-little-help-from-his-friends.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/listen-to-this.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/git-along-little-doggie.html

http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/bed-breakfast-essentials.html

Some other thoughts:

http://historybottomlines.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-founding-fathers-patriots-and-more.html

http://historybottomlines.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-declaration-was-re-write.html