Mom makes me stay inside when she’s riding her vroom machine. She calls it Johnny Jean. I call it her vroom machine. It’s noisy. And dangerous, Mom says. That’s why I have to stay inside when it’s making its noise.
I have to stay inside forever. Well maybe not forever. But it sure seems like it. We have a big yard. That’s because of the meadow. And the lane. And the yard around the house. And the circle. And the…you get it. Mom spends a long long time on the vroom machine.
Mom says that noisy machine makes the grass shorter. I wish the grass would grow really long. That would be fun. But Mom wouldn’t like that. So she uses the vroom machine and makes the grass really really short.
The only grass Mom doesn’t cut is in the woods. That’s because all the trees are in the way. I don’t like the woods. It’s scary. That’s where the fairies live. They play tricks on me. Like if I leave a toy outside the fairies will steal it. And food! I can’t leave any food outside. Ok, ok I wouldn’t leave any food behind. But Andy Cat does. And the fairies eat it all up.
Mom doesn’t take the vroom machine over part of the big circle. Mom calls it a labyrinth. It’s a path of seven circles. Each circle gets smaller and smaller. I can’t run through the tall parts of grass and flowers. But I can run along the path the vroom machine makes. That’s even more fun than walking behind Mom.
Mom told me it’s a sacred walk. Humans walk the big circle because they don’t know they’re sacred. I’m a doggy. I can run and run and have fun in the big circle. That ‘cause I already know I’m sacred.