The older we get the more appreciative of the simplest things we become.
As sybaritic pleasures go living with a dog is an emotionally healthy dream. Pumps up cortisol with every hug. Now more than ever with such prevalence for rescuing dogs and fostering them, it has become such a wonderful way to pay it forward. My #niecestopieces and their families all have Very Cute family member dogs. Sal, Cecelia (CC) and Jamo.
My niece and nephew Jackie and Frank , their children and my sister Roberta recently lost their dog Koda. She was very much like my niece Jackie who is an R.N. at Westchester Medical Trauma Unit and helps manage the unit. She just turned 32.
Jackie is a fierce and loving care giver. The paradigm for Loyal.
Yup, Koda helped to watch over her children. She was her dog soulmate.
At this point they luckily still have Sal. Sal
is a one eyed pug who lost his eye when he fell backwards off the top of the couch. He is a very good boy. He keeps on keeping on.
He was left with sight in one eye, but has keen vision as to what really matters. Not shortsightedness here . In a most human like way he craves love. He is an endearing nudge.
As long as you “throw him a bone,“ or pat his head- he’ll look like he is winking “grateful.”
He just had a procedure done( tmi) to help his bladder. In the hospital for several days while he is mournig his full time buddy Koda, his bff all of -his 6 1/2 years,
Sal came home today from the hospital.
He strutted back into the house and in such a Sal way and theoretically said “I’m home.”
So at any given moment, on any given day, when we allow problems of abundance to get in the way of feeling good and keeping our eye on the prize- think about Sal and his ability to appreciate just being alive. Yup! Run on sentence.
Ok Sal go to the first row of the audience. You will be escorted by your family to collect a Family Collaborated Winners Circle Award. They never let you down. You exemplify Courage! –
“And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me. Shinin’ until tomorrow. Let it Be!
Let it be!”
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