"If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking"
by Emily Dickinson
"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
New Guinea Pig in Guinness World Records - Guinea Pig Today
VINNY'S TRAINING HAS BEGUN!
YOU HAVE JUST GOT TO READ THIS
(well, you really don't) but see the pic
next post and you'll feel inspired!
(We admit that many our favorite bright & lovely, plush,
cuddlies - such as our BIG CARROT- are in the laundry due to this being leap-year. But now that the leap has successfully been made by that piggie in the Guiness Book of World Records, those colorful, luxurious, luscious lovelies we have all come to covet for ourselves shall mysteriously reappear in all piggie cages...
and, BTW, they are all gifts from so many loving, generous friends we cannot thank you enough!)
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Mom is really enjoying her new art studio, library, yoga and
T'ai Chi space drenched with ?sunlight? and the bloomin' purple orchid from Trader Joe; sitting in her big, stuffed chair meditating; reading poetry while savoring a piping hot chai latte, dreaming.
Yes, that is Vinny's new BIG cage on the bottom, still being "tweeked" EXACTLY to his idiosyncratic liking until all cords and things that make blinds go up and down. etc. are removed and they get to go on supervised RUNABOUT while the others chase them from to and fro from inside the sanctity of their own Big Cages and when they chew up mom's art she will simply charge more calling it "performance art" although how, when, and where she will make it remains a mystery inside the art, yoga, T'ai Chi & meditation Sacred Space she remembers
if only inside her imagination
In a galaxy far, far away
A long, long time ago...
Mom will meditate no matter what. So?
THE PIGS ARE HAPPY, MOM IS GETTING THERE
AT LONG LAST as GRIEF EASES INTO SPRING.
REALLY: WHAT ELSE MATTERS?!
GRATITUDE, OUR PRECIOUS FRIENDS,
AND
A SENSE OF PURPOSE;
THAT OUR LIVES MATTER.
AND THE WORLD IS SOMEHOW
A BETTER PLACE FOR OUR HAVING
BEEN IN IT, IF ONLY TO HAVE HELPED
A FAINTING ROBIN BACK INTO ITS NEST
OR COMFORTED SOMEONE WHO HAS
JUST LOST SO MANY BELOVED COMPANIONS,
WHICH YOU ALL HAVE DONE FOR ME.
AND WHETHER WE LOSE ONE OR FIVE,
THE LOSS IS A "MIGHTY DARK" UNTIL
TIME AND LOVE, FRIENDSHIP AND
SUPPORT, NON-JUDGEMENTAL, EVEN
SILENT COMPANIONSHIP BLOW IT OUT
TO SEA LEAVING THE BEREAVED WAITING
EMPTY-HEARTED ON THE SHORE KNOWING
THAT A NEW ONE NEEDS LOVE AND IT IS TIME
TO OPEN BACK UP TO LOVE ONCE MORE.
FRIENDS CAN GIVE THAT.
WHAT GREATER TREASURE IS THERE?
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A lot of people think George Clooney's
Italian Villa is the bee's knees. But I just
got mine and I disagrees! Look at my lips,
I am starting to smile again after the...the...
well, you know, The Time of Not Smiling.
Last night mom put my Big House together
and it was like suddenly I became a man.
Just look at me! All by myself with my own
Big Leaf and nobody to show me what
to do. My smile may be goofy but
that's what makes me so adorable.
And mom giggles when I smile like a man!
Nom-nom-NnnnnnnnnnnnOMmmmmm!
I still gotta work on this manly-man-eating!
DID-IT! And check out the size of that leaf,
too, I mean, whadda leaf, that's what Vinny-
Guinea's talkin' about, y'know?
What if Fairy SAW? (I'm TOO CUTE...now
i feel so shy...little precious Vinny gettin'
noticed by Fairy?! Ya Thinketh?
oh my...i just got shy...)
Oh, Miss Faaaairy, I would share this with you...
and graciously offer you the biggest slice/bite
thingy/piece...(oh now i am just babbling)
What is Bhindi Shark-Fin doing on my post, smiling like that for?
I love mom scritchy-scratching me a LOT!
MAKES ME ROLL OVER ON MY
SIDE GIGGLING AND KICK OUT
MY LEGS...but messing wid me and
my lady? She saw ME FIRST!
There's only one Fairy and...
Little Brother Vinny, she saw me first!
And she's British, they like "bits"
with their "chips" sorry to say it
just HAD TO BE SAID SO THERE
YOU HAVE IT!
(But mom says cuz I SO well endowed
she startin' to hafta pull stuff called
"schmutz"outta my "hoo-hoo" like hay and
stuff cuz it keep getting stuck between the
"elevator doors" as it were, and
that Fairy ain't gonna find that
sweet, neat, or genteel for to compete.)
WhatZ SchmutZ? Another Jewish Holiday?
MOM: "BHINDI: I LOVE YOU.
DON'T ASK & I WON'T TELL!"
Good night, precious WonderFulls!
Just a midnight snack to thank you for
encouraging mom to give me the
best she had to give.
Now I am certain that my "Bits"
will descend with the rest of my
man-parts now that they have
a place of their own.
Right? Am I right?
(no, seriously, where are they?)
"If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking"
