1.12.15 Winter Musings: Relishing What We Can, and Holding Dear To That Which We Have No More

Last winter Dante and I walked around Amethyst Brook often, remarkable place of great beauty;
he then not having come into his German Shepherd genetically-predisposed fear-aggression
that makes going to dog walk places impossible now. 

And I was stronger then, somehow, than I am a year later. 

So I am doing what must needs be done, by us all 

in the midst of doing what we can to improve our lot 

and the lot of ones we love: 

learning radical acceptance. 

That yes, this is happening ; 

and yes, with all the blessed support we give and receive, 

we can manage to learn to live and breathe with that which we would not have chosen. 

So we find the way to relish what we can, and hold dear that which we have no more.