Saturday, June 29, 2013

A Dog's Life

Three things in a Dog's life reign above all others. 

The first is food.

The second is food.

And the third is...food.




We got a pup last year, and she is a fast growing Lab mix who will eat anything vaguely resembling food, no matter how much we feed her.  While wrestling the remains of a chicken from her(which she dragged from the trash), I felt inspired. 
Prompt: Three things in life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. --Henry James     Use the quote as a model.







This weekend we are asking you to play around with the following quote:
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
--Henry James
We want you to follow the same general structure of the above quote.  Feel free to change the subject--tell us what's important about coffee or houseplants or whatever you'd like.  Or else change up the modifier--instead of telling us what's important, tell us what's sexy or overrated or pernicious.  Your last three lines should closely echo James's, giving us the same answer three times.

For instance, a post might look like this:
Three things about Trifecta Writing Challenge are amazing.  The first is the community.  The second is the community.  And the third is the community.
(But we kind of expect your submissions to be far, far better than that one.)

Your word limit this weekend depends on your word choices, but because we want you to closely follow James's structure, all posts should be somewhere around the same number of words as the above quote.  For the sake of clarity (and brevity), we'll impose a thirty-three word upper limit. - See more at: http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/2013/06/trifextra-week-seventy-four.html?showComment=1372450074647#c2515206423028309781

This weekend we are asking you to play around with the following quote:
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
--Henry James
We want you to follow the same general structure of the above quote.  Feel free to change the subject--tell us what's important about coffee or houseplants or whatever you'd like.  Or else change up the modifier--instead of telling us what's important, tell us what's sexy or overrated or pernicious.  Your last three lines should closely echo James's, giving us the same answer three times.

For instance, a post might look like this:
Three things about Trifecta Writing Challenge are amazing.  The first is the community.  The second is the community.  And the third is the community.
(But we kind of expect your submissions to be far, far better than that one.)

Your word limit this weekend depends on your word choices, but because we want you to closely follow James's structure, all posts should be somewhere around the same number of words as the above quote.  For the sake of clarity (and brevity), we'll impose a thirty-three word upper limit. - See more at: http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/2013/06/trifextra-week-seventy-four.html?showComment=1372450074647#c2515206423028309781
This weekend we are asking you to play around with the following quote:
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
--Henry James
We want you to follow the same general structure of the above quote.  Feel free to change the subject--tell us what's important about coffee or houseplants or whatever you'd like.  Or else change up the modifier--instead of telling us what's important, tell us what's sexy or overrated or pernicious.  Your last three lines should closely echo James's, giving us the same answer three times.

For instance, a post might look like this:
Three things about Trifecta Writing Challenge are amazing.  The first is the community.  The second is the community.  And the third is the community.
(But we kind of expect your submissions to be far, far better than that one.)

Your word limit this weekend depends on your word choices, but because we want you to closely follow James's structure, all posts should be somewhere around the same number of words as the above quote.  For the sake of clarity (and brevity), we'll impose a thirty-three word upper limit. - See more at: http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/2013/06/trifextra-week-seventy-four.html?showComment=1372450074647#c2515206423028309781
This weekend we are asking you to play around with the following quote:
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
--Henry James
We want you to follow the same general structure of the above quote.  Feel free to change the subject--tell us what's important about coffee or houseplants or whatever you'd like.  Or else change up the modifier--instead of telling us what's important, tell us what's sexy or overrated or pernicious.  Your last three lines should closely echo James's, giving us the same answer three times.

For instance, a post might look like this:
Three things about Trifecta Writing Challenge are amazing.  The first is the community.  The second is the community.  And the third is the community.
(But we kind of expect your submissions to be far, far better than that one.)

Your word limit this weekend depends on your word choices, but because we want you to closely follow James's structure, all posts should be somewhere around the same number of words as the above quote.  For the sake of clarity (and brevity), we'll impose a thirty-three word upper limit. - See more at: http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/2013/06/trifextra-week-seventy-four.html?showComment=1372450074647#c2515206423028309781
This weekend we are asking you to play around with the following quote:
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
--Henry James
We want you to follow the same general structure of the above quote.  Feel free to change the subject--tell us what's important about coffee or houseplants or whatever you'd like.  Or else change up the modifier--instead of telling us what's important, tell us what's sexy or overrated or pernicious.  Your last three lines should closely echo James's, giving us the same answer three times.

For instance, a post might look like this:
Three things about Trifecta Writing Challenge are amazing.  The first is the community.  The second is the community.  And the third is the community.
(But we kind of expect your submissions to be far, far better than that one.)

Your word limit this weekend depends on your word choices, but because we want you to closely follow James's structure, all posts should be somewhere around the same number of words as the above quote.  For the sake of clarity (and brevity), we'll impose a thirty-three word upper limit. - See more at: http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/2013/06/trifextra-week-seventy-four.html?showComment=1372450074647#c2515206423028309781
This weekend we are asking you to play around with the following quote:
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
--Henry James
We want you to follow the same general structure of the above quote.  Feel free to change the subject--tell us what's important about coffee or houseplants or whatever you'd like.  Or else change up the modifier--instead of telling us what's important, tell us what's sexy or overrated or pernicious.  Your last three lines should closely echo James's, giving us the same answer three times.

For instance, a post might look like this:
Three things about Trifecta Writing Challenge are amazing.  The first is the community.  The second is the community.  And the third is the community.
(But we kind of expect your submissions to be far, far better than that one.)

Your word limit this weekend depends on your word choices, but because we want you to closely follow James's structure, all posts should be somewhere around the same number of words as the above quote.  For the sake of clarity (and brevity), we'll impose a thirty-three word upper limit. - See more at: http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/2013/06/trifextra-week-seventy-four.html?showComment=1372450074647#c2515206423028309781
This weekend we are asking you to play around with the following quote:
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
--Henry James
We want you to follow the same general structure of the above quote.  Feel free to change the subject--tell us what's important about coffee or houseplants or whatever you'd like.  Or else change up the modifier--instead of telling us what's important, tell us what's sexy or overrated or pernicious.  Your last three lines should closely echo James's, giving us the same answer three times.

For instance, a post might look like this:
Three things about Trifecta Writing Challenge are amazing.  The first is the community.  The second is the community.  And the third is the community.
(But we kind of expect your submissions to be far, far better than that one.)

Your word limit this weekend depends on your word choices, but because we want you to closely follow James's structure, all posts should be somewhere around the same number of words as the above quote.  For the sake of clarity (and brevity), we'll impose a thirty-three word upper limit. - See more at: http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/2013/06/trifextra-week-seventy-four.html?showComment=1372450074647#c2515206423028309781

12 comments:

  1. Nothing could be more true than a puppy wanting food. Well done and very real.

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  2. Yes. Also: chewing vintage vinyl records, chewing vintage vinyl records and chewing vintage vinyl records. Or is that just me? :-) Thanks for linking up!

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    1. No records, thank goodness, but I have lost a few of my favorite books to my dog's urge to snack. I am sure we had similar reactions!

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  3. So true! And squirrels. Which I guess might also be considered food... ;) Great take on the prompt!

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  4. it's either food . . . or shoes at my daughter's house. :)

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  5. Oh my god, this reminded me EXACTLY of this video, if you haven't seen it already:

    Ultimate Dog Tease:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw

    Enjoy!

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  6. I couldn't agree more!!!!! Did you know I have a DOG blog too? Would love for you to check it out, Dakota's Den www.dakotasden.wordpress.com

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  7. So right! It's my dog's reason for living. She's ruled by her taste buds.

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  8. Also true of some humans I know ;)

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  9. My dogs would agree! They try to con each of us out of more food. Many times, I'm getting barked at and I think they haven't eaten, but then my husband will tell me he already fed them :)

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