I was agitated and overwhelmed yesterday. I believe the pain medicine to treat my puncture wound may have caused this. Anyway I had a 12 hour sleep and when I woke at midnight I read for an hour. This morning I trimmed Romeo's nails and set up homemade buttermilk to incubate. I was able to use up two things that needed using, a quart of milk and cup of buttermilk. Here's the recipe. It's even easier than making yogurt.

https://www.foodiewithfamily.com/homemade-cultured-buttermilk/

My dog Romeo was itching his hind quarters making a raw spot. We have noticed an issue and gave him antihistamine which usually works to stop him and heal the skin. Most likely and allergic reaction to a flea bite. Today after his walk and after the antihistamine he went at himself again. I called his name trying to get his attention. No luck. I grabbed his collar and he turned and bit me hard. Puncture wound.  My fault. Off to get antibiotic ointment. I phoned the doctor and I am up on my tetanus. Had the shot last year. Romeo is up on his rabies. Amen. Shit happens. My mistake. Part of loving animals is sometimes they are animals. 

Let sleeping dogs lie, and let itching dogs itch. 

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well, they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.

URSULA LE GUIN

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. Elizabeth Cady Stanton  

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.

― Philip Pullman

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.     
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.  

 ― Philip Pullman

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
― Philip Pullman

Writing is a process that’s entirely totalitarian. A writer is a tyrant, a dictator. He has complete power over every comma, every sentence, every character. When I’m writing, I’m the boss — I’m in charge. When the book is published, the political nature of it changes completely. People can read my books in whatever way they want to. I don’t want any control over the process of reading, it’s democratic: and furthermore, between the reader and the book there opens up a space of complete freedom, which is also private. In a democracy, we have a private voting booth. It’s secret. So the difference between reading and writing is the difference between democracy and tyranny. 

PHILIP PULLMAN

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
― Barack Obama

What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
― Barack Obama

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.   ― Barack Obama

If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription, who has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer - even if it's not my grandparent. If there's an Arab-American or Mexican-American family being rounded up by John Ashcroft without benefit of an attorney or due process, I know that that threatens my civil liberties. And I don't have to be a woman to be concerned that the Supreme Court is trying to take away a woman's right, because I know that my rights are next. It is that fundamental belief - I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper - that makes this country work.
― Barack Obama

I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

― Barack Obama

 It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

 — Aristotle

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

 — Benjamin Franklin, published in Poor Richard's Almanack.

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. 

Irish proverb

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. Arthur Schopenhauer