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Life Made Full with Animals 5 Comments

April 11, 2019

Feeling For

I know what is hard about this. I know what is hard about losing an animal. Ask me about Andante.

Making Change

Sometimes, change happens with such a slothful lack of urgency that it twists me in knots of pent-up energy for

Caretaking Hope

I don’t want to do it anymore. I don’t want to take that daily little pill to help my body

Bonded Pairs

I wanted to write about something else, something that had been cooking on my mind’s back burner for the better

Keeper of the Flame

I am sitting upright now, a thing I haven’t been doing much of these last few days. Surgery on Tuesday went

Telling Stories: At the Fence

I have been writing stories; full-on efforts to plunge my heart down deep into the flow of what goes on between and

I have only lost “normal” to the extent that I thought that I “had” normal in the first place. I do not want my past life back. I do not want it, because it is not mine to have. I want the life I have now, this present moment.

A Herd and a Pack

Our horses live together as a herd. Now, that may seem like an obvious thing for a horse, but you would be

Three Old Ladies

Three old ladies live in this house. Two of them are dogs. If you quickly concluded that I am the third

Attractive Nuisance

I used to be a lawyer. Truth. I’m not anymore, but I figure having once done the whole law school

Barker

Giada is a barker and we love her….anyway.

Driving

About life, death and healing.

Petit Filou: 04/04/86 – 10/12/2015

It is a most perfect fall day; blue sky and lovely sun, everything so fresh. My buddy is gone. We

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Shape Shifting

Today is Gordy, Sr.’s birthday and last week was my Dad’s. I don’t know the proper etiquette for acknowledging the birthday of

The Place We Call … Farm

The farm, our farm, IS a lot of work; it is also a great source of joy and personal satisfaction. It’s not just the big picture of it, but the little scenes that make my heart sing. A hundred times a day these things catch me – – first my eye, then my heart. I am swept up in the beauty of it, the intimate moments that arise because we are woven together, both two-legged and four-legged, in a web of caretaking and daily living. Someone is always eager to share those moments with me.