Life in the Land of the Pure

 I know, it’s been literally months since I’ve published.  Bygones.  Things have been both busy and crazy. But for now let me just tell you about last Saturday.   Started off with the weekly 90 minute, 5 Mile wellness walk that I’ve previously posted about.  Then I washed up, met a few friends, and drove to the animal rehabilitation center, the same one we went to with ruth and heather. This time there was a crew from FourPaws, an Austrian based NGO that sends veterinary surgery teams around the world.  They’d been in Karachi when the Islamabad center called to ask their help in removing the restrictive nose ring from a bear that had been used in bearbaiting.  One was a Vienna native, one from Bulgaria, and the team lead was born in Egypt. We spent two hours talking with them and visiting the other The lion who was beaten to monetize a tik tok Nilu the leopard, who was found with multiple pellets under her skin  A white Eagle who was injured falli...