Well Things at our house are enjoyable, Sasha has been taking great care of 9 adorable puppies that are nearly two weeks old and you can’t help but love holding little puppies. Coco is starting to show and farika is close to whelping and at this time of year with new life all around as the seasons change and life begins anew it has been great to have so many puppies around. Spring is a great time for your annual checkup and vaccinations, there is a new Rattlesnake vaccination getting good reports that we are going to try this year as well. If you live in snake country you may want to. It is time for flea and tick season as well so take the required precautions for your area. It is a good time to think about heartworm as well. This is the time of year when we all start to get active again except for lucky guys like Ray living down in the keys! If it has been a while since you have been for long walks with the dogs, start slowly to make sure their feet and bodies condition! Enjoy Spring!

This may come off as kind of sappy but it still comes from the heart and has dog stories in it! I hope you will take time to read it. Most of you know how hard a struggle it has been for me to lose my Dad and all the changes going n in my life as fall out from it. I went to some motivational stuff out in Chicago this weekend (sorry I didn’t call Della, meetings were so long and if I saw Ivy I knew I would fall apart). I was trying to clear my head and get things back together. I listened to two amazing speakers that really got through to me Jeffrey Coombs(Famous personal coach, the coach of coaches they call him) and Dave Blanchard (Og Mandino Group owner) and wanted to share some insight with all of you. The whole last year of my Dad’s life he was trying to get through to me that it really is about the journey, not the destination. We all know that to be true, we have all heard it many times, we have all told others that principle, but Dad could tell I just wasn’t getting it. He could see I was so caught up chasing my dreams I just wasn’t enjoying the trip at all. Losing him took all the wind out of my sail and allowed me time to digest all of that. Well suddenly this weekend I really felt it, I didn’t just know it in my head anymore, I felt it and knew it in my heart. I have wasted so much time dwelling on the past or chasing the future that I really haven’t been present most of my life, I really never could say “I am” only I was, or I will be. When I was listening to these speakers I had a very vivid image come to my mind. Two weeks ago at Search and Rescue training I was watching a German Shepherd chase her tail with style and class. She was chasing so hard she was jumping in the air, falling down and spinning like a blur. I laughed right out loud it was so fun to watch. We really are amused sometimes with the stupidity of others. I realized powerfully this weekend, I have been that silly dog for most of my life. Chasing and chasing, and doing it fast and furious! I realized that moment that the silly dog had no idea that it already had it’s tail, it has always been there! I have worried about where I have been and how limited my future would be when it finally clicked that I am already there, just like that silly dog. I already have a rewarding prosperous life with meaningful relationships. I truly am already there and I want to keep living my life with that perspective. I hope this may touch some of you and you might realize, that you too are already there. Yesterday really is gone forever and no longer matters, all we can take from it is memories and wisdom. Tomorrow really never does come, by the time it is 12:01 AM , that has already become today! Live your life for today and help others along the way, I am sure that is where happiness lies, not “If only” and “When I have… or do,,, etc”

Stephen Parsons

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