The devil made me do it!… How often do we do things we shouldn’t and perhaps more often than not, get away with it? Do we justify our actions by shifting the blame to others, pleading our own case of stress or distress which should make us more sympathetic before the judge and jury of our conscience?
“Be the person your dog thinks you are.”
Have you ever heard that phrase before? We laugh sometimes at how naïve, and utterly devoted our quadruped friends can be while at the same, we time nod in unspoken acknowledgement when we see characters like Dug in the movie “UP.” Dug is best known for his line: “I have just met you, and I love you.”
My dog is probably like most in the same way, but upon careful observation of his interation with me and my family, I learned a few things from him that made me wonder—What if people could be like this to each other?
Here are the four things I learned:
After some discussion with my publisher Simon & Schuster/Howard Books, they have taken some of my feedback and revised the book cover for Darkroom.
Jimmy was a friend to so many, yet he made you feel like you were his best friend. He loved to connect on common interests, and he blessed me and my family by opening up to us and allowing us to be close to him.
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