It's really cool discovering the lessons other life forms are teaching us. I learn a lot from my dogs. Grover is hanging out with me right now. He loves to play equality fetch. This involves him bringing me his most favourite kong and me throwing it for him. He'll bring it back to me, though sometimes he just so excited that he just runs away with it again as soon as I go to pick it up. I like to think that I can see him giggling through the motion of his tail.
The equality part of this game comes in when he throws the kong underneath a couch or bookshelf. At this point, it's my turn to fetch the kong. He is very nice about pointing out under which object the kong is. He points with his nose and wags his tail like mad. (He's a bulldogge, so it's even funnier to watch). I scoop it out and throw it for him. And so the cycle begins again. He loves this game. So do I.
It used to drive me bonkers. Couldn't he just keep the darn thing out from under the furniture? Of course he can. He proves that whenever I leave the room. He'll leave the kong at the bottom of the stairs until I return. He sleeps. Drove me bonkers. Then I realized. I realized this is how he likes to play- it really isn't fair that only one of us gets to fetch and one of us gets to throw. A great lesson in sharing the joy, compromise and equality.
"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment." -George Eliot
Grover makes me smile and that is a great place to start.
From my heart, to all hearts- peace and love friends, peace and love.
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