Aileen and I like to watch boring shows right before we turn in for the night. An exciting game or an intense movie might get us too engaged and keep us from being able to fall asleep. But a boring show nicely slows the pace and prepares us to rest.
Lately, we have been watching a show that follows several farming families in Scotland through a year of their lives. It is not exactly riveting stuff, but that’s the point, isn’t it? By the time we get to the end of an episode, we are bored silly and ready to escape to bed.
But recently, one little statement caused me to perk up for a moment. One of the farmers was expressing why, though she loves keeping cattle, she struggles with keeping sheep. This was her reasoning: “Their one goal in life is to find the stupidest, dumbest way to die.”
That’s quite a goal and one that, from my understanding of sheep, is hard to dispute. Though sheep might not actually want to die and certainly don’t make it their aim, they do seem to find creative ways of harming
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