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Well, the Economy seems to be in Trubble.
At least that's all that's inna Noos, besides "pirates" anna SEALS anna Navy - but I hextpect to see the Navy onna'count obba Fakt Our Phil was innit.
But the Economy issa Whole Nudder Bunny (as the saying goes).
So I axted Maman "Whut's up with alla this 'Economy' suff?" and she gave me this long, complicated Discussion that involved History, Geography, Polly-Ticks, anna whole bunch of Udder Subjecks and quotes frum Professors and stuff I can't bemeber hextactly, but frum Whut I Can Figger Out, this Whole Fing shold be preddy easy to solve.
Onna'count obba Fakt, it all has to do with the Circle of Bright, which is preddy much a Lagomorphic way of looking at fings - which is why "Economics" has never much bothered bunnies. So, for Hoomins, I will try to hextplain. The theory behind it might be a liddle complicated, but in practice, it werks like this:
Furst, I had a look around and decided: I am hokay.
So nextest, I looked at Missy, and like she was sorting hay innu "eat", "don't eat" and "George eat". So I didn't get involved with that onna'count obba Fakt there are some Fings you just let Missy get on with on her Ownliest without boddering to axt her enny 'pinions, lemme tell you! Just sorta assume that if somefing is the matter with Her Werld, she's gonna let you know abouddit in Very Short Order.
So, afta watching Missy for a minit and deciding everyfing was going pretty hokay so far as she was concerned, I called over to Mr Mouse in his habbytat, "Hey, Mouse! You hokay over there?"
And he was, like, "Yeah. Could stand wiffa clean-out anna carrot this morning didn't seem big enuf as usual and there was too much parsley, but inna main, ebberyfing is hokay!"
So then I axted Dusty and Foxie if they were hokay.
And they each said that they were, hextcept for the minor details about there not being nearly enuf treats for their liking, of course.
But my point is this:
The Furst Thing to do inna Economy is to make sure you are hokay. Then make sure everybun inna Warren is preddy much hokay - and if they don't have food, or water, or if they are cold or not feeling well, they will tell you.
Now if sumbunny in your Warren isn't Hokay, or if the Warren is in danger, then it's your job as TopBun to round up ev'rybunny else, have a fink, and see Whut Needs To Be Done to solve the Immediate Problem. Then Alla Us Togedder shares alike in getting done Whut Needs to Be Done - onna'count obba Fakt a Warren is Alla Us Togedder.
And afta you got that handled, you moove on to your Neighbours.
So, just about Then, the Dawg careened past on his way to the Door to the Back Gardin. He's still having trouble with his "Canine Vestibular Disorder", which means that he still feels like the Earth is mooving unn'erneath of his feets, so he's weaving back-and-forth like a sailor-on-shore-leave (as Phil would say).
And he's still not eating his dinners. He's only eating MilkBone Dawg Biscuit Treats and only if Dadda hands them to him. He seems to have sumfing wrong with his left eye, like he can't see outta it so good to find the food in his dinner-bowl, or like he doesn't want the food that's in there. Whutebber. There is somefing that's Not Hokay going on with him.
Please don't misunn'erstand me! He's still cheerful and he's still trying to do his Jobs, and to please ev'rywun, but he's a Border-Collie and this is Whut Border-Collies Do. But Yestidday Aftanoon, when he was
trying to chase KayCee Kitty outta Our BunRoom (onna'count obba Fakt he still maintains his "No Catz Inna BunRoom" Rool) he slipped while he was going around a corner and fell down onna floor inna Dining Room. It made a very loud ~ bang! ~ and scared Maman and us, and made Dadda come running. And it made the Dawg afraid to stand up again without help frum Dadda. This is not like Our Dawg!
So, as he came past this morning, sort of brushing past Mr Mouse and then banging innu Missy's and my habbytat, I axted him, "Hey Doggo! Are you hokay?"
And Marc sorta whined (which is not like him!), "Well, I need to go out On Patrol, George-the-Bun."
And I'm, like, "Well, hang on, here come Dadda to opin the door for you. And he's prob'ly gonna go out with you, too."
And Marc said, "Yeah. Dadda helps the grass hold still."
So Dadda helped Marc go downnasteps and steadied him while he got across the walk out on to the grass.
And Maman came through afta Marc and Dadda and I stood up and Maman and I went nose-to-nose, and I was, like, "You know, I know 
the Dawg's v-e-t said his Verty-go would clear up inna'coupla' days, but it's been a coupla'days and the Verty-go is still boddering him. So mebbe you betta make anna'pointment for him to go to seeda v-e-t and get checked out, onna'count obba Fakt there might be something else the matta with him. Because he's not recovering like DokterPeterBatts said he should. And I know you don't wanna fink abouddit and nedder do Alla Us Togedder, but mebbe we hafta because we love him."
And Maman looked at me and she sighed and I knew that she and I were thinking the same sorts of things about how old Marc is, and how much can go wrong and how much we don't want ennyfing to be wrong.
Sumtimes Not Knowing is betta than Knowing, because when you know sumfing, you might have to do sumfing. And sumtimes you don't wanna have to do fings at all.
But love is about doing.
Love isn't just talking.
It is not a passive kinda werd that just sits there, looking at itself. It looks outward, sort of glowing.
Assa TopBun, I kinda fink of myself assa little spark sitting inna middle obba circle of bright - and then I imagine me, making the circle bigger by making it hextend out to include Alla Us Togedder. And with Alla Us Togedder inside of the circle, then we're all glowing, so we can hextend that Circle of Bright that's around us out to include those around us in Our Warren. And when Our Warren is glowing brightly, then it's Circle of Bright can touch other brightly glowing circles in God's Great Warren, and reach out to hold back the Darkness.
And that's sorta Whut We Do. We each glow with a sorta Divine spark, a tiny touch of God's love-within-us, and we can choose to either let that spark hextspand, or we can keep it to ourselves. Of course, keeping it all to ourselves doesn't really do much to help the Circle of Bright hextpand, but reaching out to others, does.
My own hextperience is that when you opin up your Circle of Bright to touch sumbunny else's, your own personal spark inna middle of your personal Circle of Bright kinda lights up and gets stronger, too.
So that's how I figger the Economy can be fixed - by ev'rybunny opining up their Circle of Bright to touch ev'rybunny else's. Onna'count obba Fakt, when eve'rybun's Circle of Bright is touching and glowing that means that ev'rybun is safe and doing hokay, and the Darkness of OnAlone is kept away by the Brightness of Alla Us Togedder.
Yeah. I told you, it's a very Lagomorphic way of looking at fings. But, then, whuttayawant? I'm a HouzRabbit!
--------------------------------------- By George
