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| GOT Wyldefyre - Glowing and Green - Beautiful |
On New Year's Day, 2000, a family of amazing women gave me a beautiful piece of blue-green art glass It's a multcolored flask, stunning. This flask is a calliope of color naturally, but it holds a secret: In the sun it glows green from the inside.. I've always appreciated art glass but living post brain surgery has given my appreciation new depth. Colors are more vivid, artistry is more obvious. I can look at a flower, a piece of tile, a rock and see new facets, textile patterns and see infinite, beauty. I have 0 patience for pointless tragedies, sorrow sewn through sheer stupidity.
I'm speaking, of course, about the idiots losing (killing?) beloved pets on United Airlines. I can't walk. I can't speak. Who thinks I'm in any mood to view horrific stories of a family having their adorable French Bulldog stuffed for three hours in an overhead bin where it died? United Airlines must think we all want profound sadness! Well, they're wrong! Nobody wants to see a dead puppy! Ever! What's their slogan? "Dead Pets Fly Free"? I'm not in the mood for sadness, pain. United created that cruelty. Innocent travelers paying money to jerks who lose/abuse their cherished pets. Yet, I carefully followed that sad tale. Who didn't? Heartbreaking. Turns out United is pretty good - at losing/killing pets. I followed another tragic-sounding (happy ending) journey: an older, sick, German Shepherd who was mistakenly flown to Japan! Kids were involved in all these situations. Sobbing, grieving, Kids! Children! This is horrible and completely airline-made. One time might be explained away as an accidental event - an anomaly, but the PS tells me there's a third "United Four Legged Tragedy". He says I don't want to know the outcome. OK, he's right, I don't want to know.. What I do know is that more than one tragedy is a pattern!
"Fly the friendly skies" my ass, boycott these puppy killers! Mistaking a Great Dane for a German Shepherd? Nobody should be subjected to this level of incompetence. Flying is bad enough. I'm forever sentenced to the middle seat, I can't be bothered with heartbroken families, There is no shortage of airlines that want your business. United will always be the airline of neglected/misdirected/dead pets! Enough! None of us should have to concern ourselves with the life or death of a pet! Don't use United! They never have the cheapest flight anywhere so it shouldn't be hard. Puppies are dying! Children are crying! United's answer? A very unsatisfactory "we apologize". Uh, yeah. Not nearly adequate. We already know they mishandle humans. They are rarely the most inexpensive or only carrier so why does anyone use them? Dogs are dying people! I haven't checked on cats yet, I'm afraid to.
There is no shortage of tragedy and sorrow. Suffering is everywhere. Colors, nature and mysterious glass are what I surround myself with, study,absorb. My PS is playing "The Rover", Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
Not the one to micromanage veterinary issues, stuff happens, but I do know for a fact that the seats on United get narrower, the seat back pouches smaller like a shirt pocket, the under-the-seat space smaller (especially aisle seats), they ply you with fluids and then say the lavatories are out and you just have to suck it up, and if you make it to the lavatory, it will have pee all over the floor despite the flush mechanism strong enough to jettison animals...can you believe one of the Olympic figure skaters used that United Airlines diddley (Gershwin?) for their long routine, gasp? Wrong message!
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