HAPPY MUSINGS
Happy Musings is a newspaper feature syndicated by King Features that I create each day to remind us all that “Life is wonderful!” I offer it here to brighten your day. Please share it with your friends.
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09/03/08 (Life)
Fall in Love with Life
"Fall in love with life. Life is already in love with you."
If one would live by this motto, one would live happily ever after. That’s all that one would have to do.
To do it, one has to realize the truth of this statement – “life is in love with you.” It is true now and always. But how to know this, the knowing that comes from experiencing? I suppose, by trying it out, by just imagining, pretending, that “life is in love with you.” It doesn’t mean that life won’t bump you around a little here and there. After all, as much as we love our children, they need to be set straight now and then too. Still it takes nothing away from the fact that we, like they, are loved.
Now once this part of the equation is conceded (the “life is in love with you” part) the next step is to make sure that “you fall in love with life.” Fall in love with life even when you are getting bumped around and perhaps even because of it. It is only out of love that we are corrected.
That’s the whole enchilada – the giving and receiving of this life’s love.
As I contemplate this thought there is only one thing that could pose a hang-up to realizing this in its totality. And that is if one feels unworthy in some way and refuses to accept the “life is in love with you” part. Now to get around this stumbling block, one must also realize that one is one with life and therefore one is always and forever worthy, no matter how many dumb things one might have done. Each of us needs to get over it as quickly as possible – this sense of unworthiness when we’ve done something really stupid. In a snap of the fingers you can be free to accept that “life is in love with you” and then “fall in love with life” all over again.
Carry on!
08/28/08 (Family)
 Dogs! Don't You Love ‘Em?
"Dogs have their place in a home, usually at the head of the family."
Don’t you just love dogs? They have as many personalities as people, but they are not people. Yet those dog lovers among us who hold their dogs in such high regard are not quite so sure. This is what I have noticed: those people who love their dogs beyond all else, make them the center of attention in most situations and in some cases – head of the household.
There are a million types of homes and living situations and a million types of dogs to go with them. Some dogs have the benefit of being able to run freely on a farm or ranch. Some may be lucky enough to have a backyard to romp in. Still others are restricted to life inside a home or an apartment. And none of this seems to have anything to do with the size of the dog. Once a person falls in love with a dog, that person makes room for that dog within his or her particular living space.
To me a dog is still a dog. I welcome them in my gallery. I play with them, flirt with them, give them a pat on the head and a bowl of water. I see them and interact with them as if they were young children – playful, cuddly, but destined never to grow up. I enjoy many dogs in my life – my son’s dogs, the dogs on my walk to work, the dogs that stop by the gallery and say hello, but I do not own one and one does not own me.
I have owned dogs in the past and that is probably why I wrote this verse. We had a dachshund who was nothing more than a Hitler. He ruled our every move. We had to trick him into being captured in order to isolate him when we wanted to go out for dinner. Then there was the sweetest dog we ever had – Sara. Picked up by the pound people, she was found roaming the streets with her pup. The pup was adopted first. Then we got Sara. She lay at my feet for hours while I painted. I found the most incredible home for her to go to when I knew I was no longer going to have space for her. We said our goodbyes and she never looked back. I have never really been an “owner” of a dog, more like a holding tank until the proper owner came forward. I have loved my dogs and I can see why they can easily be head of a family.
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