Valentine Gift

I have watched the humans in my world. Seams many are "celebrating" love today. As a dog, I don't understand this. Why? One day? Can't you love all year?

I know there is probably some grand ol' story about Saint Valentine or some strange thing like that. But I have seen some humans "tell" others I love You as if it is the You that makes the I happy. As a dog, I don't understand this either.

Humans are more I oriented then dogs. This is not necessarily a bad thing, it's just a canine observation. When it comes to this idea of singular love, or love on a singular day. I prefer the method most often used by hounds.

Facilitating giving energy increases abundance for us all....

This is my gift.

Emma Zen

Life before Death

My humans heard and oddly comforting sentence the other day. It was addressed to another human speaking of the lost of their pet who had been suffering in old age. He said, "Death, is not the worst thing that can happen to us in life." ? ! .

Death is not the worst thing that can happen in life ? ! . It hurts us, not the dying. For them death is not the worst thing that can happen in life. Weather that life is animal or human.

Oddly comforting ? ! .

How did I score?

Life, human life.

Seams to be something that you people have no control over. One minute everything is fine and smooth and the next your all hectic and panic over outside influences. I doubt I, a canine, am suppose to be able to figure it out. I am not sure you humans even know what it is all about?

What I do know is this, we the dogs are you best friends and then life gets in the way and without you know to, mean to or realizing it we become second fiddle. We are left home alone in an emergency. Our exercise plan goes out the window while you help a friend or family member. Dinner hour changes because you got a different job.

As you do, we don't. Or in other worlds, as you life gets busy ours gets messed up too. Consider this/us when these times arrive in your life.

But me... how did I get so lucky? How did I score? Mom's Granny is struggling slightly and needs family attention. She is 93. And Mom's friend had a health issue, a stroke, and wants Mom to take over here business for a couple of weeks.

So that is my humans added outside influence and then their is "my human"!!! I heard her telling Dad about her plans and I heard her talking to the lady on the phone about "my" accommodations. Even in the midst of what most find overwhelming and at a point when all dogs get betrayed. She just takes me, includes me, acts quietly as if there were no other options. And together we shall go! Together we shall go!

How did I score?

Life is a Gift

Life is a gift

Today before you bark
***think of one who has no voice.

If you do not like the taste of the same old food
***think of one who has nothing to eat.

If you do like your siblings or companion
***think of one crying out for company.

Complaining about life is time to
***reflect on those who have already gone to heaven.

If you don't want your job (I am a therapy dog!)
***think about those who are disabled or unemployed.

If life gets you down, smile.

Life is a gift!

Talented Paws

It has been said a more then one of my social profiles that I have talented paws or that my humor is innate. These are "my" qualities and characteristics I have you know. Let me give you an example: I must truly want to have my own web presences or my human would never be on line. It is only for me that she struggles to learn the pros can cons of myspace, twitter, blogspot, facebook, linkedin, digg, stumbled and my own website. She is more of a nerd (please don't tell her I said that!) As she would be happy with no Internet service and sitting on photoshop all day.

And lets be realistic here: have you ever noticed my facebook? You may think you know my humans because you here about my daily life but you don't. You never hear her talking about her family, her friends, her job, her life. You don't' hear about my days either. So even though it seams like I do a lot it is still a partial effort of each their days.

So may talented paws type! (okay Mom does it and I only pose for pictures!) but you only hear my story! And my humor: that is all my Mom just translates. She is so not as funny as I am!

I am a dog as large as life. My humans translate my words, my emotions, my expressions, my actions, my life and my desires. In this way I have had the opportunity to touch more people and more lives then I ever would in a dogs life time of therapy, modeling and traveling! It is truly what I love, it is truly who I am and it is truly a case of talented paws!

Emma Zen Chiapuzio!

Trip

Experience is a byproduct of action. Go on vacation and learn something!

The beginning of a year

Well being a dog I don't believe in resolutions. I also don't believe in guilt, shame or fear. Life is what life is and to be overly enthusiastic about it or the yin of that: depressed just adds in an emotion that wasn't suppose to be here today. (Did that make sense?) Take me, I was started this blog this past year with the intentions of logging an entry everyday. Of that I fell short. So it became, what it is! And I am still here. If I were a human I could see me betting myself up over the guilt of not being able to do what I said I was going to do or if I was embarrassed and couldn't function because I was ashamed or if I thought my friends were going to post something mean about me so I didn't' come back. I would not be healthy, or in "my own" space, or a blogger. Three things which I am! So begin a new doesn't necessarily mean to start something new, you could just drop all the stuff you don't need and continue forth with what is left! I am very, me!

Let Go and Be Dog!