A dog becomes a fish

Many Preferred and other fervent and loyal blog readers will remember the posting about Edgar.
One of the persons that live permanently on the Rancho Punta Boca del Salado, Baja California, Mexico.

How he was taken out of school at the age of 12 to become a rancho-help doing small jobs helping his grand parents.

How he is struggling with the specific aspects of his adolescence.
A father completely missing and lacking.
Away from his mother and half-sister and half-brother.
Living in relative loneliness now without friends or other young children of his age.
Facing a rather unchallenging future.

Soon will be his birthday.
And the idea was proposed for him to have a dog.
Resulting in great enthusiasm in Edgar.

But he had to ask his grandparents for permission.
His grandmother was OK right away.
The bottleneck was his grandfather.
First, Edgar was too afraid to ask him.
Eventually he did though.
And Gumaro, the grand father, replied that he had to think about it.

This is of course how a good grand father handles a situation like this.
Making the grand child understand that serious thought is given to the request.
And that a grand father is wise by not giving anymore impulsive answers to questions.

After a few days Gumaro had an answer.
It was: no.
He would not allow Edgar to have a personal dog.
Of course, the person behind the whole turmoil also respected fully Gumaro’s decision.
The authority of the grandfather vis à vis the grand child was not going to be undermined by publicly or even personally questioning his decision.
In the end, the protagonist is a guest of the family and must behave and respect.
No dog is no dog.
Period.

Edgar was asked if he was disappointed.
He wasn’t, so he said.
Tough boy!

The good part of this story with Edgar is that he has now come up himself with something.
Fishing now fascinates him.
That can be done by walking to the nearby beach and catching some nice fish out of the Sea of Cortez.

The permanent pilgrim has decided some years ago not to fish anymore.
He is even now member of a political party in the Netherlands that defends animal rights in the Dutch Parliament.
All his extensive fishing equipment has been donated to the current fiancé of Edgar’s mother.
Who has given a fishing pole to Edgar.

So, it is fishing now.
And he has accepted that surf fishing needs some training.
This afternoon he is coming for his first surf fishing class.

The good thing is that Edgar has found his own passion now.
That turns out to be the purpose and meaning of the dog saga.
The dog was not his idea.
Although he liked to adopt it.
The fishing comes from within himself.
That is the best.
And he will be perfectly able to become a good surf fisher and feel better about himself.

Hard to wait for the moment he enters the kitchen of the rancho proudly showing the first fish he has caught.





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