LOVE, FORGIVENESS AND KINDNESS

It's been an interesting week. The sudden death of a close friend, surgery on my boyfriend and the interactions of family, friends, animals and co-workers (you'll notice animals came before co-workers) have given me a lot to think about. My boyfriend has always said that love, forgiveness and kindness is the only way he can be and all of us should be. We've had quite a few "discussions" about that but I think he might be right. Does anything else really matter? Does it matter what religion you are? Does it matter what species you are? Does it matter what your relationship is to one another? No. All that matters is that you be the best (and I mean really your best) that you can be. I don't believe necessarily that blood is thicker than water because for us this week there were some nice long drinks of water refreshment. Thank you friends for all your concern and offers to help. 

And as far as animals go I think they are better at this than us.  A couple of weeks ago my old cat Remnant passed away and Falka the Rottweiler who lives behind me saw me get into my truck with a bundle and was very concerned. This is the same Rottweiler that startled Remant out of a sleep and got a huge slash across her nose. Falka didn't even growl. She just looked at me with those beautiful eyes. The next day I watched her deliberately make noise as she approached Remnant so she wouldn't startle her. Her owner (who's a bit of a wild thing himself but is always the first to offer to help unload stuff from my truck) went off to work for the next couple of weeks. Today was Falka's first day back. As I was sitting in my office I heard tap tap of feet and I peeked around the door and there was Falka tiptoeing through my store looking behind and under things for her friend Remnant. Every room. She didn't give up until she was convinced she wasn't there and then she slowly walked out. This was the first time she has ever entered the store. It was so sweet and so sad. Love, forgiveness and kindness...