Published by

K Mark Schofer

A conversation while somewhat reluctantly talking to another dog owner on a sparkling January afternoon. This while his two dogs and my two dogs sat listening. And they all behaved. It rained every day for the last month. Today the sun was an odd welcome visitor.

And nobody wore sunglasses. The characters are Me and Oliver.

Me : Hey your dogs are quite handsome. Is that one there a border collie?

Oliver: Yup he is pure a breed.

Me: (Initially surprised as my dog observation was a somewhat lucky guess). I’ll bet she is smart.

Oliver: He sits and watches two hour movies.

Me: (thinking inside my head) I can’t even do that at times.

Me: I feel like a bad dog owner, we are not much into television.

Oliver: It is not really television, rather documentaries or history shows.

Me: wow that’s cool. Is Edger Sawtell a movie yet?

Oliver: He likes PBS.

Me: (As we both were walking away with our dogs. Cooper our black lab giving me the side eye) My wife and I watched network television yesterday. We watched ‘This Is Us’

Oliver: That is a good show.

Hello,

I’m Mark

His friends observe Mark seems wired a little differently. Perhaps it’s more likely that noticing little things often missed by others is a relic of a quieter, simpler time. He has a way with words, which he refuses to let be hindered by sub-par typing skills. People have great stories to tell if you sit and listen.

A belief dear to Mark is that there is certain beauty in the world. You simply have to look for it.