All in the Family!

Hello all.
Here is a great picture of all of us guys together,
Mama and Stoney Wall, and Merlin, and Frodo and of course me.
It's funny how when you are building a family, you don't really think,
oh yeah, all these animal family members are all going to be old at the same time.

BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. 

Poor Mama and Papa.

IT IS GOING TO BE TOUGH.

So old brother Stoney Wall was 16 and one half when he passed last August.
MY GOODNESS,
IT HAS BEEN OVER A YEAR ALREADY!
This picture was just before he passed.

Brother Merlin is now going on 12 years old,
pretty old for a collie.

Brother Frodo is now almost eleven.

And for me, of course I am going on fourteen.

WOW WHERE DOES TIME GO!!

And so my Dharma Do's for today are as follows.

DO LOVE YOUR ANIMAL FAMILY,
AND YOUR HUMAN FAMILY TOO.
  NONE OF US KNOW HOW LONG WE HAVE,

AND EACH OF US

IS TO BE CHERISHED.

DO take family photos, in hard copy.
It is such a treasure to have something, in the hand,
MEMORIES OF GOOD TIMES,
something to be seen, to be touched, to be held.

And finally,

Do know that the
ONE,
most important thing in the

WHOLE WIDE WORD

IS
KNOWING WHO YOU LOVE
and
KNOWING WHO LOVES YOU.
It is so important to
FIND A WAY TO BRING THEM TOGETHER.

Remember
"Where there is great love there are always miracles"
Willa Cather

Mama always loved reading her books and her favorite was
My Antonia.


Hope everyone is safe with this crazy weather.
Dharma Hugs!
Dharma Dharma