Friends for Life

Posted on April 15, 2011

There has been a youtube video going around of a cat “playing” with a school of dolphins.  It’s adorable, to say the least.  There is also one of an elephant and a dog, who have become companions for life.  What inspires me most whenever I see animals of different species interacting this way, is it insists that unconditional love and acceptance be present.

My cat, who weighs a mere eleven pounds, could easily be crushed by my miniature horse, Muffin, weighing about 300 pounds.  But instinct is strong in animals and when they have never felt threatened by anything in their life before, they seem to carry no prejudices.  Love and nurturing is a powerful thing.  Animals prove it to me day after day after day.

The picture above is Boo telling Muffin to stop grabbing his tail!  I love the look on Muffin’s face – “who me, I would never grab your tail!”

Quite often Boo will be walking through the pasture with Muffin in tow, and then he’ll just suddenly stop and lay down.  He’ll even roll over onto his back and then Muffin will groom his belly!  At some point I will capture that moment.

“Where you lead

I will follow

anywhere that you tell me to.

If you need

you need me to be with you

I will follow

where you lead.”

~Carol King

Rich Morning Light

Posted on April 14, 2011

Light and dark.  Rain and sunshine.  Evening and morning.

Life has a way of creating balance, bringing us full circle to a place of equilibrium .

Sometimes the circle is very large and takes a long time before we find our center again.

It is often a journey of a lifetime.

Or an ebb and flow in both a calm and stormy sea,

spinning us round and round as though we are in a whirlpool.

In the morning, I feel renewed.

I feel at peace and ready for whatever life has in store.

It is a joy to begin each day with my animals.

To walk out my back door into the wet afterglow of yesterdays rain.

To feel the return of spring warmth.

To hear the sound of life emerging from the soil & dancing in the wind.

Life is about balance.

It is something we all must practice at every single day.

Animals are wise teachers.

If we open our eyes and hearts and pay attention to their teachings,

we will see that they are mirroring what it is we are in need of learning.

Focus and balance is what my beautiful cat is teaching me today.

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