“Opportunity doesn’t always arrive looking inspiring. Sometimes it arrives disguised as the thing you would have avoided if you had been given the choice.”~Slim Sammy~ Nobody signs up for the hard version. You want the opportunity that shows up looking like a gift — easy, obvious, exciting. Instead it shows up looking like a delay,…

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”~Lao Tzu~ Ollie doesn’t size up the other dogs at the river. Big dog, small dog, fast dog, slow dog — doesn’t matter to him. He just runs, tail going, completely himself, no comparing, no competing. And every dog…

“The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.”~Florence Scovel Shinn~ Everything you throw out there comes back around. Kindness, complaints, grudges, good energy — doesn’t matter what it is, it’s making a loop and heading back toward you eventually. So…

“Every human being has a true, genuine, authentic self.”~Gabor Maté~ Somewhere under all the noise, the roles, the version of you that shows up for everyone else — there’s the one that’s just you. Life buries that person sometimes. Stress does. Old wounds do. Trying to be who everybody needed you to be does. But…

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”~Josh Billings~ They came to us in a box nobody else wanted. Best decision we never had to think twice about. Dogs don’t know distraction. No scrolling, no half-attention — just you, completely, every single time. Luke went first. Leia…