Yesterday I saw two wild turkeys wandering around a little ways off the road on the way back from an appointment.
When I was walking my dog with my dad last night, we found a toad. Merlin (the dog) really wanted to go play with it. It was hopping in the direction of the road, so I handed Merlin off to my dad so I could catch it and move it to the other side of the sidewalk, and then we moved on. Saw it again on the way back, and we let it be that time.
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"