Guess Who Came Home?

That's right, a skinny as a toothpick Labrador who looks like he's been through the trenches! 

Thankfully though, he's in one piece and he's just tuckered beyond recognition. Really, it's strange to see him lacking so much of the pep he usually has. But I'm just so glad he's back home!! Argh!

All the flyers I shoved into people's mailboxes! The shelters I called and visited! Then had to revisit to take down stuff! But he's home and... I could cry tears of joy! 

I've got him held up in the backyard and he's not happy that he can't roam, but that's what his life is going to be until I can get him altered. I'm pretty sure that's why he wandered off in the first place which is very much unlike him. 

I really need to work on these posts before I'm this tired.

Night!

Photo Friday! - Bike to Nowhere

Photo Un-Friday! - UN / Civic Center Plaza

01/31: So... As a later edit to this post I realized that... My schedule was a day off and I thought it was Friday last night! Woo! Yeah, so that meant I posted "Photo Friday" a day early. My bad XD

I'll just put up another photo for the real Photo Friday and this one can be "Photo Un-Friday!" Yaay! 

I was too tired last night x_x;

He's Nowhere to be Found...

A few days back one of my beloved pups went missing. And when I say "pup" I mean my full grown yellow Labrador. He is such an inspiration to me with his upbeat, tralala attitude. He and I are really close too. Each day I'd walk him and my other frisky fido out in the orchards for them to sniff around and dig.

And boy, does he love to dig. Dig dig dig! I made it his middle name.

But now he's missing and I've gone far and wide looking for him. I've printed out dozens of "Lost" flyers for him and have gone door to door on most streets around the area he was last spotted. Now my whole neighborhood knows my phone number... Urgh x_x;

But it will be worth it if I can find him.

I searched at all the local animal shelters and left my contact information with them. If he's not found in a month I can return and put up new information.

The problem is, living out in the countryside, it's so easy for someone working out in the orchards and fields to come on by and snatch him up. He's a sweetheart. So kind and gentle. And he's such a handsome cutie with those freckles on his nose!

I'm so worried. I want him to come home.

The tears come and go and sometimes I just punt my foot at something hard and regret my action.

Now I just feel pretty darn glum and numb.

He's never been gone from home like this ever. He's nowhere to be found...

Random Thoughts...

I really need to put some stories up here on the blog. I've done all sorts of other posts, but I really would like to use this place as a sort of fun place to track my works when I so choose. I've done it a few times, but not to the extent that I'd hoped to. 

It really goes to show how important habit and self discipline are. Even now on the 28th day of running this blog I almost ran beyond my deadline of "Post once per day!" Here it's only 11 pm and I'm pretty used to cutting it short... But I almost forgot all about this.

And when it comes to self discipline I need to spend less time on the little things and more on the bigger ones! I really want to make the place shine, for example. I feel like I only do things half-arsed, however. That's not a good feeling and I think I may be spreading myself too thin again. 

Or maybe not. I need to form better habits and achieve I higher state of self discipline. Only then will things truly begin to converge and grow as they should.

Insomnia Haiku

Keeping me awake

You strike when I least expect

Still I try to sleep

The Leaf Over Our Eye

We need not live a life with a leaf over our eye. 

We need not live a life with a problem casting a shadow over our emotions and thoughts.

We need only remember to pick up this leaf, this problem, and to examine it away from ourselves.

So close, the problem might seem bigger than it actually is.

Taking a moment to take a few steps back we might see the problem, the leaf, for what it really is.

Nothing more than another hurdle in our lives. A small, silly little thing that shall not stay with us forever.

Our problems are not usually as big as we make them out to be.

And even if they really are, sometimes a new point of view, a few steps back, is all we need to attain a little awareness over the issue.



I owe this way of thinking from the book "365 Zen" in which a quote is given from "Shundo Aoyama, Zen Seeds".

Please see below for this marvelous quotation:

"Hideo Kobayashi, a cultural critic, says that a leaf from a tree can hide the moon. If we place a leaf over our eyes, it is so close that we cannot see it as it is. A leaf over our eyes can shut out the moon and the world around us, too. If we hold the leaf away from us, however, we see the leaf as it is. So it is with other things. Mountains, rivers, the moon, clouds-- all are visible if we remove the leaf from our eyes.

When it comes to things in our own lives, they can be too close to be seen in a proper perspective. We easily get caught up in situations, crried away, eventually losing our perspective. We can be easily puffed up with pride over a trifle, or become prey to melancholy. But if we see things in perspective, we can appreciate the wonderful scenery around us."