Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We've taken to walking around a reservoir nearby and we're pretty brisk.  After our dogs died we stopped for a while, and now we exercise ourselves.  We see plenty of dogs.  Today there was a bulldog with a pink collar named Elise, and she was taking a break.  Evidently she takes a lot of breaks, but that's what our female dog used to do as well.  Just seeing dogs is enough right now for us.  It feels good to keep going without a break and get our heart rates up.  We discussed Perry Mason at length, and figured out why we had not seen but a few episodes before:  school, work, kids and travel.  Our lives were so very busy, and now we have time on our hands.  So many years of kid appropriate programming.  Sesame Street and Mister Rogers.  I've seen hundreds of those episodes.  And even the dogs we had before were not doted on in the way the last three were.  We had the luxury of being indulgent.  So there are big shifts in our lives, and Perry Mason is just the least of it.