Love, empathy, tolerance--also puppies, flowers, and laundry

Friday, April 20, 2007

365 Days of Good Kharma


Just remembering...
  • the instant we saw her for the first time and just knew

  • the trip home in the dark with our puppy in her crate

  • when she was so tiny she could crawl underneath the passenger seat between the front and back
  • how she liked to lie by my feet and let the air conditioning blow on her while she tugged at my shoelaces

  • how her first tiny collar was still too big and had to be rubberbanded to hold the end down

  • watching her step on grass for the first time and try to figure out what it was

  • having her sleep on my tummy as I finally got some sleep on the sofa

  • sneaking her into bed one morning when she was tiny

  • how worried I was when she stopped eating and lost a quarter of her puppy weight

  • and coaxing her into eating by dropping pieces of toast smeared with peanut butter or "accidentally" letting Cheerios fall on the floor

  • how quickly she learned to sit and lie down

  • how it took ages for her to learn not to come upstairs

  • potty breaks on rainy Spring nights huddled under the incense cedar where it was always dry

  • those sweet pink paws and round baby tummy

  • watching her grow cinnamon-colored eyelashes

  • how she teethed on metal objects--shovels, trowels, picks--and left our shoes alone

  • the days of blogging with a sleepy puppy on my lap.

Lord grant us many more years with her.

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