Monday, February 25th
I’ve booked the first reading for the novel after publication on May 10th at the Orinda Book store. Look for details in the schedule section. And the next workshop which will be on Aphrodite is set for April 13th. Now if it will only stop raining for long enough to get my roof repaired I will feel that things are truly moving forward after this long sloggy sloppy mushy period. Some call it Mercury retrograde, I call it mud.
A friend came to me with a dilemma today. The gist of it was how does one know the difference between what is wrong to do and what is painful to do? The two get pretty tangled and when it is painful it often feels wrong for that reason when it isn’t actually morally incorrect, just hard. In this case, is it morally wrong to put an animal down when it is unable to adjust to life indoors with people? The Human Society says it is not wrong. My friend’s heart is pained but she cannot live with this animal’s behavior – she’s done everything known to man to change it. And no one else will either – she’s searched all avenues for a home.
This is an ambiguous moral dilemma. Thoughts about it anyone?
