i'm observing lulu as much as training her. more than. observing is training me to see what lulu sees, what alerts her, what alarms her, what fascinates her. we go up the hill between the trains and the geese, in the green parcel obomba wanted to make his multi-story parking garage. this is the kind of hill where coyote sit to survey the land and watch the sun set and rise. i stopped with lulu here before to calm her when a freight train passed above behind the trees. now we stop to simply observe quietly. she paces a little, then comes and sits on my leg and watches a girl cross from the far side pass near. she is calm. i think she feels all's well this day of the dead afternoon. she's watching over the slow man with the slow feet.