To Make It Perfectly Clear

Hamish Macbeth
Photo A.M. Moscoso
2014

“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

Hamish and his cousin Stitch 2021

The Beginning

Female character China saqra of the Saqra
(devil, in Quechua) dance, province of Paucartambo,
Cusco, Peru 2010

“Terror made me cruel . . .”

– Emily Bronte, ‘Wuthering Heights’.

1900
Woodcut of Devil and witch riding on horseback.

 

One Line

As I am about to embark on another year of writing, I’m going to remember this quote from John Steinbeck when I need a boost:

 

Photographer Unknown

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

—John Steinbeck, writer