Two wrongs don’t make a right. Two wrongs only make a bigger wrong.

I regret the ‘gulag’ comment and apologize to Karen for this hurtful remark.

I believe our existence as beings is a dynamic interaction and interrelationship between and among all things all beings and all life. In a private communication with Karen I suggested that if we all applied the same availability to kindness tolerance, and empathy toward one another as we’re more than prepared to extend to our pets, perhaps the propensity we often seem to exhibit in offering rash statements in the heat of passionate debate might be filtered through that same sensitivity ‘filter’ we use in our interrelationships with our animal companions.

An unkind or hurtful word once spoken can’t be ‘unspoken’. I can only examine my conscience and acknowledge that this behavior fails to reflect the respect and wonder I embrace for all living creatures. Failing to extend the greatest respect for life, for all life, and for the burdensome experiences people from different and in many ways ‘strange’ cultures must bear hurts us all.

I have not been very ‘successful’ in my few contributions to Pet Talk in furthering the notion of peace and tolerance and I owe everyone an apology.

Please accept my sincerest apologies and encourage each other to kindness love and respect in every way we each can by carefully weighing the impact our words may carry to other folk.

Peace and Respect to All