August 22, 2005
introducing RBKYDQ
There's a new being in my life. Wallace showed up on my doorstep a few days ago with our new two-month-old "daughter." Her full name is Remarkable Brown Kwan Yin Drama Queen (RBKYDQ)--Kwan Yin for short. She's a Labrador retriever mix--or a "chocolate lab," as I've heard some describe dogs like her.
Kwan Yin is the Chinese version of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, of infinite compassion. Sometimes that fits, particularly now, as she lay under my chair with her little napping head on my bare feet. But she also sometimes manifests as Kali, the Indian Goddess of Destruction, especially when she starts attacking my CDs and books with her already-sharp teeth.
It's so refreshing to see a new creature in the process of growing, whose prime directive is to EXPLORE EVERYTHING. Though, if I could I might edit that prime directive: EXPLORE EVERYTHING--but not necessarily with your TEETH.