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MIchelle Gatto's avatar

What about taking a middle path in regards to a furry Friend…?

A therapy dog 🐶 who is already trained…?

After my only child (Sam) was killed in a violent crime:

After being like Forest Gump, walking an endless road:

I found Rossi, my Angel pup.

He is my shadow…

My Angel.

Rossi and I send heaps of love to you.

Truly…🙏🏻♥️🦋

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judi hoffman's avatar

Thank you Natalie and Suleika for this poignant prompt. I actually went to bed last night thinking "I'm so LONELY" and then I woke up to 'The Lonely Stories'. I can't wait to read the book.

The confident, rebellious, 18-year-old girl, arrives at an experimental college in 1974 armed with her adoration of Henry David Thoreau, Buckminster Fuller, and Thelonious Monk, and her lifelong dream to be a wildlife veterinarian. But she quickly discovers that the courses required for vet school are too hard. "I'm not smart enough" she realizes, and she moves on to something else. "No, no, no! That's not it at all!" I tell her. "You've just never had the experience of overcoming big obstacles. You don't know how. You don't even know that such a concept exists. You can do it. Actually you need to learn to do it because you will face obstacles and challenges like this with every single thing you want to do in life." But she doesn't understand, doesn't know how to try, so she pivots to another dream. Many more doors swing open for her, more amazing adventures are handed to her. Again and again she arrives at the very cusp of her dreams, again and again she stands in front of the mountain...and turns away. 

She used to carry a whole lot of regrets, but now those regrets have turned into insight and wisdom, and even gratitude for a lifetime as a professional dabbler.

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