The Olive Slide Show

It's all about convergence. Or so I keep hearing. Anyway, I have created an Olive slide show. So far it's rather short, but I hope to add to it. Here is the link.

Olive continues to improve. She not continually frightened outside. Although she is still reluctant to go, she has a pretty good time once she is actually outside. She has discovered there are lots of interesting smells in Brooklyn, like garbage and abandoned mattresses and food wrappers and chicken bones. She has found some squirrels and pigeons and rats to chase. Today she met some cats who live at a pet store nearby. She enjoyed that; she lived with cats in her former home.

We've been spending a lot of time in a little park nearby. I am outside much more than I used to be before Olive arrived. It is interesting to see the life of this very well-used park. There are usually some homeless people sleeping, toddlers in strollers with their nannies or mothers, slightly older kids with scooters or bikes, soccer players, office workers, other people walking dogs, people doing tai chi, etc. But the proportion of each population changes throughout the day.