Recently I have been rather sick with a rattling cough and a bit of a fever, so instead of paying money to go to the doctor for her to tell me that I needed to sleep and drink lots of water Mama bought be come really tasty tea. It is an echinaea blend made by Yogi. You might not think that this matters very much but every morning as I pour the streaming tea kettle's contents into my Nalgene in an effort to drink more fluids and to strengthen my immune system I get a little Buddhist thought. They seem very straight forward sometimes like, "Be happy", "I am beautiful, I am bountiful, I am blissful", "Live to share", and "Love your soul." They all seem very yoga-ish giving me zen advice, but it's really good advice when you think about it.
The two that caught my eye today were the two that I opened today to get my daily does of tea. They are the ones in the picture: "Live to share" and "Love your soul." The first referenced something that I am so excited to be doing on Monday! I'm rescuing two, that's right two more dogs! The story is a bit more complicated that just getting an itch to rescue two older dogs. Our good family friend and handy man- Mark Marshall's house burnt down while he was down at his other house at the lake and when the police and firemen arrived they got the dogs out but sent them to the pound. Mark works in Atlanta and so has lived in the Atlanta house while he was working on jobs for his Atlanta clients and so does not live at the lake very much even though that's where he calls home. Because of this rather odd situation he can't just send the dogs down to the lake house because he's never there! The whole fire incident happened on Monday the 18th and now it's barely the 22nd and the pound already told him that the dogs would be put down at the end of the week! Luckily he got a 3 day extension and is going to get them on Monday and then bring them to our house. We suspect that because the county knows that they have an owner and that they are both eight, getting up there in age for their sizes they made the date so soon. Cruelty is what I call it. They are such cuties:
I'm so happy I get to save two lives over the Thanksgiving break (and for the foreseeable future). I'm so glad that Mark will be able to take his dogs back instead of having to hear that they had been put down. :')
The second thing the tag with the loving of your soul. I'll come back and probably ramble more about this, but the big question is this: how can you love your soul if you don't know how to define your soul?
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