As a California coastal dog, I am drawn to the seafaring life.
A prime research source for me has been Margaret Wise Brown's classic book The Sailor Dog, which examines the very satisfying experience of a dog by the name of Scuppers.
Apparently all one needs to get going is a boat and a spyglass. A hat and a can-do attitude are also desirable.
The book also provides a song that I have adjusted so it goes, "I'm Lambie the Sailor Dog..."
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A dog can dream, can't he?
Sometimes I don't want to go home from the bluffs. Maybe there are more dogs or people I want to interact with, or things I want to sniff.
At such times, I channel Mahatma Gandhi, an exemplar of non-violent resistance.
Ferdinand, the title character in a book by Munro Leaf, is a gentle fellow who is not interested in fighting or playing like the other young bulls. He just wants to sit in the shade of a cork tree and smell the flowers.
I think about Ferdinand when people say to me, "Why don't you run and play like all the other dogs?"
