Dogs don't die; they just sleep in your heart!

This Guy Nails It!

Having recently lost my best friend, Abby, of 13 years, I can certainly relate to this.  Not sure who wrote it, but it hits the nail on the head!

My Abby
"The Best Dog in the World"

Some of you, particularly those who think they have recently lost a dog to “death”, don’t really understand this. I’ve had no desire to explain, but won’t be around forever and must.

Dogs never die. They don’t know how to. They get tired, and very old, and their bones hurt. Of course they don’t die. If they did they would not want to always go for a walk, even long after their old bones say:” No, no, not a good idea. Let’s not go for a walk.” Nope, dogs always want to go for a walk. They might get one step before their aging tendons collapse them into a heap on the floor, but that’s what dogs are. They walk.

It’s not that they dislike your company. On the contrary, a walk with you is all there is. Their boss, and the cacaphonic symphony of odor that the world is. Cat poop, another dog’s mark, a rotting chicken bone ( exultation), and you. That’s what makes their world perfect, and in a perfect world death has no place.

However, dogs get very very sleepy. That’s the thing, you see. They don’t teach you that at the fancy university where they explain about quarks, gluons, and Keynesian economics. They know so much they forget that dogs never die. It’s a shame, really. Dogs have so much to offer and people just talk a lot.

When you think your dog has died, it has just fallen asleep in your heart. And by the way, it is wagging it’s tail madly, you see, and that’s why your chest hurts so much and you cry all the time. Who would not cry with a happy dog wagging its tail in their chest. Ouch! Wap wap wap wap wap, that hurts. But they only wag when they wake up. That’s when they say: “Thanks Boss! Thanks for a warm place to sleep and always next to your heart, the best place.”

When they first fall asleep, they wake up all the time, and that’s why, of course, you cry all the time. Wap, wap, wap. After a while they sleep more. (remember, a dog while is not a human while. You take your dog for walk, it’s a day full of adventure in an hour. Then you come home and it’s a week, well one of your days, but a week, really, before the dog gets another walk. No WONDER they love walks.)

Anyway, like I was saying, they fall asleep in your heart, and when they wake up, they wag their tail. After a few dog years, they sleep for longer naps, and you would too. They were a GOOD DOG all their life, and you both know it. It gets tiring being a good dog all the time, particularly when you get old and your bones hurt and you fall on your face and don’t want to go outside to pee when it is raining but do anyway, because you are a good dog. So understand, after they have been sleeping in your heart, they will sleep longer and longer.

But don’t get fooled. They are not “dead.” There’s no such thing, really. They are sleeping in your heart, and they will wake up, usually when you’re not expecting it. It’s just who they are.

I feel sorry for people who don’t have dogs sleeping in their heart. You’ve missed so much. Excuse me, I have to go cry now.

Leadership Crises of Obama

David Letterman: 

“Take a look at this: gas under $3 a gallon, Unemployment under 6%, Stock market breaking records every day. No wonder the guy is so unpopular.”

The day before the 2014 Mid Term Elections, there were a lot of political posting going on the internet.  The above post was offered up by one of my "Blue Friends" who will remain nameless in this blog.  In my anticipation of a Republican blowout, I answered the question of "why is this guy so unpopular?"  I think that I pretty much nailed it, as witnessed by the Democrats being neutered in the election.  So, if you are one of those who are in denial, about why Obama and the Democrats are in the predicament that they find themselves in, please read on...

It couldn't be because Obama’s list of leadership crises are formidable?  Like the botched rollout of the healthcare website?  Could it be that Americans now understand that the “Affordable Healthcare Act” is not affordable, and in fact mandates less care for a higher price and it still leaves the country with 30 Million Americans without healthcare?  Are they upset about long waits and horrible care at Veterans Administration hospitals?  Or, possibly Edward Snowden’s disclosures of the NSA secrets?  Surly, not the pileup of foreign children along the southern border of the US, right?  Do you think that Average Americans remember the nearly $1B economic bailout that resulted in no bailout to the shrinking Middle Class Americans?   Or better yet, the billions wasted to promote solar energy only to have those solar companies go bottoms up!  …and what about the lack of action on the Keystone Pipeline, a “no brainer” which everyone agrees would provide 20,000 high paying union jobs, and help reduce our reliance on foreign oil?  Is it possible that Americans asking why he has stood idly by as Iran gets a nuclear weapon and Islamist terrorists marauder across Syria and Iraq beheading foreigners, including Americans?  Is the voting public mad that the President of the US did nothing as the Ebola virus arrived in the United States?   Could any of these situations strike a disgruntled note to the public … Benghazi, Fast-n-Furious and Lois Lerner of the IRS?  Maybe it is the feeling that the Whitehouse Press Secretary and the Attorney General continue to throw roadblocks in the way of the truth?

Gas and the stock market are driven mostly by the international economy.  Unemployment...for most of Obama’s 6 years was at 8% and only recently to 6%.  America has not seen this continued high unemployment numbers since Jimmy Carter was President.  Oh, did I mention the unprecedented number of those who have totally given up on the idea of finding a job...not counted in the 6%!  One more...Obamacare’s  broken promise to “keep your healthcare plan and keep your doctor.”  Obamacare is the one single issue impacting job growth and economic expansion in our country!  …and it needs to be fixed quickly!

Maybe Americans now realize that Obama has a jaded worldview of the greatness of America, and that he is incompetent and a rank armature, who has failed to lead all Americans.