Best buds Sooty ( Ballyfoyle Tess... Ballyfoyle Luke x Ballyfoyle Banrion) and The Nugger ( Bailielands Nugger.. Bailielands Tinker Boy x Bailebroc Sukey) with adopted baby Patch.
"The playfulness and joy of a dog, its unconditional love and readiness to celebrate life at any moment often contrasts sharply with the inner state of the dog's owner-depressed, anxious, burdened by problems, lost in thought, not present in the only place and only time there is: Here and Now. One wonders: living with this person, how does the dog manage to remain so sane, so joyous?"
"You need nature as your teacher to help you reconnect with Being. But not only do you need nature, it also needs you.
You are not separate from nature. We are all part of the One Life that manifests itself in countless forms throughout the universe, forms that are all completely interconnected. When you recognise the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you!"
taken with gratitude from STILLNESS SPEAKS, by Eckhart Tolle, 2003
I live in the West Of Ireland with my partner Tommy, son Peter and our animal companions: dogs, ponies, chickens, a rabbit, tortoise and Duke the African Grey Parrot who passes comment on most everything.