Koda with toys

10-month-old American Shepherd

understands importance of play,
close observation,
pushing limits of boundaries,
value of half-chewed stuffed frog,

eating when hungry,
sleeping when tired,
trusting smell,
always removing labels.  

Emotionally available,
he is better company
than many scholars
who understand human

impacts of climate crisis
like Koda understands 
origin of the universe. 

In a related matter, my favorite recent climate article is “The kids are not OK” by Julia Steinberger at Yale Climate Connections May 15, 2022 republished from Medium.com. Her bio notes she is “an ecological economist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.”

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