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Tag Archives: dogs
Obedience
daily practice is hard. somedays all we need is someone to be with us. . Stay. Breathe. Thank you.
Posted in The Now
Tagged cats as distractions, collage, daily practice, dogs, ink brush painting, interspecies spirituality, interspirituality, meditations, nature, obedience training, poetry, positive reinforcement, R+ training, spiritual practice, spirituality, sumi-e, training stays
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Scared?
everywhere we went to today we saw people running in fear – fear of dogs, of abuses, of institutions, of illness, of death, angry, they speaking their fears in terms of absolutes – “they all bite” “they should all be … Continue reading
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Tagged aacr, aat, animal assisted chaplaincy, animal assisted trauma support, blessings, canines, dogs, fear, ink brush painting, interspirituality, love, pet therapy, phobia, spirituality, sumi-e
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Early harvest
the crop of kittens and cats of poodles and paps is almost ready to harvest… . as we lie in the unmown grass, i think about the grains of early harvest times, of the sowing of seeds and hopes and … Continue reading
Posted in Animal assisted therapy, animal facilitated chaplaincy, God's dog, Gratitudes, Poems
Tagged animal assisted chaplaincy, blessings, cats, dogs, Earth centered spirituality, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-mysticism, eco-spirituality, First Harvest, grace, ink brush painting, interspecies spirituality, Lammas, lawn mowing, Lughnasadh, Lughnessadh, Paganism, papillion, poetry, poodles, spirituality, sumi-e, tall grass
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Solace
overcome by grief and despair, i take to bed, to get some comfort there – thinking it would come in the shape of dreams instead it gently jumped on me with four paws, then four more – and gentle solace … Continue reading
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Tagged all lives matter, animal assisted chaplaincy, black lives matter, calico cats, cats, dogs, dreams, eco-chaplaincy, grief, ink brush painting, justice, love, mourning, naps, pain, poetry, police lives matter, poodle, sacred activism, sleep, spirituality, standard poodle, sumi-e, unity
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oh..poss..ible?
my reverie is broken by loud insistent barking – i follow the cacophony to a cabinet in the studio, where angry face met curious. I remove the dog, much to his dismay and i hoped the scared and angry one … Continue reading
Posted in The Now
Tagged amo, animal assisted chaplaincy, art, art studios, baby opossums, dogs, dogs and possums, eco-chaplaincy, eco-spirituality, ink brush painting, interspecies spirituality, interspirituality, love, mother opossum, nature, opossums, poetry, possums, sacred community, spirituality, sumi-e, urban wildlife
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JUMP!
sometimes the trouble is not that things are to hard, but that you have underestimated how far you can go!
prayers
sometimes, all you need to do is ask.
Posted in God's dog, Gratitudes
Tagged animal assisted chaplaincy, ask and it is given, ask and it shall be given, canine body language, dogs, eco-spirituality, ink brush painting, interfaith, interspecies spirituality, interspirituality, love, manners, mysticism, nature, please, poetry, seek, spirituality, standard poodles, sumi-e
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Fences
there is a saying that good fences make good neighbors but i am not so sure that is true, i think that fences make it very hard to see You… and that can make it hard to make friends.
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