Absolutes

Absolutes 1 Darkness dominates the earthly cycle at year’s end. This is true no matter how many fools legislate otherwise. 2 Dogs have unerring internal clocks and finite bladders. Taken together, these absolutes of nature guarantee that I’ll witness every dawn from November to March regardless of my preferences or exhortations. I don’t have a problem with this, although I’d much rather be relishing the warmth of bed and wife. I trade comfort for being part of cold quiet pinking toward sunrise, snow blowing horizontal, rain sometimes gentle, often thrown hard against the ground heaped upon the poor dogs answering the call of another of nature’s absolutes: when you gotta’ pee, you gotta’ pee.