{"id":502,"date":"2009-11-17T22:37:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T02:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=502"},"modified":"2009-11-17T22:37:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T02:37:18","slug":"the-sherpas-long-thank-you-to-the-finnster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=502","title":{"rendered":"The Sherpa’s Long Thank You to The Finnster!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey there, Finnster:<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

You are so good to me. I can\u2019t get over my treasure. I mean, wheat flower, rolled oats, peanut butter, rice bran, canola oil, yogurt, sugar, palm kernel oil\u2026 it goes on and on. Everything I\u2019m not allowed to eat because they stuck me on a diet and said I\u2019m a fatso.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m supposed to weigh 30 pounds. I weight 35 pounds.<\/p>\n

So\u2026 that\u2019s somewhere a little over 15% overweight. IS THAT REALLY OVERWEIGHT!<\/span><\/p>\n

I loved your card, for sure. I\u2019ve got toys, treats, tummy rubs (but then again, I get that every single day). The treats are dietetic now and I have to get little pieces of steamed carrot and little pieces of steamed broccoli and I have to pretend they have a taste but at this point, anything you stick in my mouth is worth it, but it can\u2019t be fattening.<\/p>\n

They try to run me four times a day but I got the better of them. I don\u2019t even run one time a day! When the running kid comes, I jump up and down as if I\u2019m excited to see him. We go outside the house. I lay down and put all four legs out flat like a stuffed animal that is too heavy to be dragged. He sits down and 30 minutes later they pay him money.<\/p>\n

We have it down to a science. (Plus, he gives me all the treats he carries with him!) I have this great racket going. He\u2019s complicit in it and I continue to be a fatso.<\/p>\n

I guess I\u2019m middle-aged now because 6 times 7 is 42, so I\u2019m over 40 years old. Wow! That\u2019s a long time.<\/p>\n

I would like to do a circus act but then again, I think that the old-fashioned circus acts have gone the way of the Ed Sullivan show, Finn\u2026 Young people today have grown up today with Cirque de Soleil shows and they think that that is a circus!<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no side show. Freak shows are considered politically incorrect. Everyone\u2019s afraid to have all of the animals for fear they are going to be sued by animal rights activists\u2026. No one in his right mind would swing on those trapezes or really be shot out of a cannon like in the old days. No one can balance their entire body on their forefinger on the point of a ball or on a pin or do anything like that. There are no tattooed ladies. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m gonna do. I was born too late, so I don\u2019t think the circus is in the cards for us.<\/p>\n

Your folks were pretty nice too. They sent something to the people and they send something to me or for me and just between us, they refer to you as \u201csassy\u201d and they said you were indulging yourself in \u201cadolescent independence\u201d. I\u2019m not sure what that means but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s good!<\/p>\n

Your mom has a great way with words, particularly when she referred to KPK being wickedly busy. Wickedly, indeed! I think that\u2019s what the word said, but wickedly busy? I hope so.<\/p>\n

It sounds like he visits airplanes and airports with backpacks (no wonder he has a bad back) and I don\u2019t know why anyone in his right mind would go to Hotel Rwanda and if they did, why they would go in August\u2026 If you go to the Magellan catalog, you can find pith helmets with mosquito netting attached (which might be a good investment).<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t understand that workshop that you\u2019re doing with the Mashiuki Theatre or is it the Mashiriki Theatre Company\u2026 Is that the Rwandan AFTER THE GENOCIDE <\/span>program? Is that like the AFTER THE STORM<\/span> Katrina program? I wasn\u2019t making fun, I\u2019m just being curious\u2026 intellectually curious.<\/p>\n

You see, I don\u2019t care about food ONLY!<\/span><\/h3>\n

I\u2019ll tell Mr. Sondheim that in reviewing my calendar, you were able to quote his \u201cnot a day goes by\u201d but please be aware that lazy daddy, lazy daddy, lazy daddy ain\u2019t gonna do a calendar this year. He said he\u2019s not motivated. It is not worth all the time and energy and effort and he was trying so hard to get a calendar into the SherpSpace that we could access and maybe put in our own local pictures. He got bogged down in technology he doesn\u2019t understand and then got irritated with people who were not appreciative of the hard work that went into the last few years of calendars or never acknowledged even getting a calendar\u2026 and the other people who did not like the positioning of their dogs in the supplementary book, that they didn\u2019t get the right billing\u2026 gimme a break! Everyone is a diva nowadays – even canine divas. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the dogs, of course. I think it\u2019s their parents. They\u2019re all like Rose out of GYPSY<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Listen Finn, Sweetie, Baby, Cookie, Honey\u2026 You take care. You be well. Don\u2019t let them boss you around. If you want to be adolescent and petulant, do it! I get away with it. There\u2019s a lot of ways you can get to them. They\u2019ll never know what hit them. Remember, it\u2019s for us to manipulate them. Not for them to put a leash around our necks and just walk us. They don\u2019t get the truth (which is that we are leading them).<\/p>\n

That is our role in life. We lead. We round up animals. We herd. We\u2019ve been doing it for thousands of years. Don\u2019t let them beat you down, honey. Just let them think they\u2019re winning and then drive them in the direction you really want to go. That is the secret.<\/p>\n

Be well. Take care, Finn. You\u2019re definitely the best Tibetan in all of Washington\u2026 that I know and you\u2019re certainly the most gorgeous (for sure) of any of them.<\/p>\n

Your New York buddy, with great memories of our Walk for Cancer,<\/p>\n

\"SherpsPawPrint\"The Sherpa<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey there, Finnster: You are so good to me. I can\u2019t get over my treasure. I mean, wheat flower, rolled oats, peanut butter, rice bran, canola oil, yogurt, sugar, palm kernel oil\u2026 it goes on and on. Everything I\u2019m not allowed to eat because they stuck me on a diet and said I\u2019m a fatso. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-502","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}