She is actually my parents dog, (but I get to share her).She came with the name Lucy and I added Liu (like the american actress, whom I like),. She’s a tiny little thing and has a super sweet disposition . She’s been through a lot of unsettling changes but seems so happy to be here with us now and already after only one day, seems settled and relaxed. . Her personality and looks couldn’t be more different than our beloved Jakey, which is good, as we won’t ever be able to compare her. Her little tail never stops wagging and she just wants to be pet, have her belly rubbed, give kisses and follow us around. She gets excited by the smallest things. I’m so happy my parents rescued her. She’s 7 and has had too much upheaval in her life. It’s nice to see her so happy and relaxed. My mom is already dressing her. Notice the pink scarf- and my parents just got her a new pink harness and purple coat, which the dog seemed happy about. She apparently knows all about getting dressed up and ‘looking pretty’.

On Death

Kahlil Gibran – 1883-1931

Then Almitra spoke, saying, We would ask now of Death.
    And he said:
    You would know the secret of death.
    But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
    The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
    If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
    For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

    In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
    And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
    Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
    Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
    Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?
    Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?

 For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
 And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

    Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
    And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
    And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

From The Prophet (Knopf, 1923). This poem is in the public domain.

How is it so easy for you

to be kind to people he asked

milk and honey dripped

from my lips as I answered

Cause people have not

been kind to me

-Rupi Kaur

Whats the greatest lesson a woman should learn?

that since day one she already had everything

she needs within herself.

Its the world that

convinced her she did not.

-Rupi Kaur

What is stronger

than the human heart

Which shatters over and over

and still lives

– Rupi Kaur

Other women’s bodies

are not our battlegrounds

-Rupi Kaur

If you were born with the weakness to fail

You were born with the strength to rise

-Rupi Kaur

If you are broken

and they have left you

do not question

whether you were

enough

the problem was

you were so enough

they were not able to carry it

-Rupi Kaur

Let it go

Let it leave

Let it happen

Nothing

in this world

was promised or

belonged to you

anyway

all you own is yourself.

-Rupi Kaur