de rien
not at all
pas du tout, de rien, jamais
piddling
insignifiant, futile, de rien
ekkert
nichts
This following a hand charade with Bella about going through doors, standing at an open door and not going out, heeling, and pointing the hand. Sunny doesn’t react to any of that, he listens only to direct and forceful commands, maybe a bit senile perhaps? And Bean is deaf but she reacts to a good number of hand signals when I can get her visual attention. Australian Sheepdogs. Smart, but not an Ozzie gene in’em.
Thoughts wander to other people who don’t seem to have a need to connect overtly. Covert connections of silence. It’s my problem. Not theirs. Remote contact. tele-presence is no life.