Adopt City Dog Blanche

04/02/2024

For some reason my mind keeps going back to this movie from 1987, "Broadcast News." James L. Brooks wrote and directed the film. A big cast - William Hurt and Holly Hunter, in their prime. Jack Nicholson. A rare serious role for comedian Albert Brooks. And this one scene that never leaves me for long. "What do you do when your real life exceeds your dreams?" is the question that William Hurt's character asks aloud. Albert Brooks, leaning in towards Hurt, quietly responds to his question. "Keep it to yourself." I don't know why I've been thinking of that scene so often these days, perhaps one reason lies here in this picture below, for it is one of Blanche taken in her home. In her forever home. She's fitting in magically and is so well-loved. I couldn't keep that to myself if I tried. Have a beautiful day.

03/24/2024

It seems that it is time to say so long, for my friend found her forever home on this lovely day - the news coming as the sun continues to make the cold start of this morning seem so distant and a beautiful afternoon rises. I am thankful that I had the chance to do the little that I have done to help my friend. Have a beautiful life, my friend.

"The strangest thought came to me on this morning, as I awoke to greet the coming dawn.
The sun was hardly peeking through the garden, it felt that with everything I was one.
Then I wished that I could come back as a flower, as a flower.
How I wished that I could come back as a flower, to spread the sweetness of love."

03/22/2024

"When I wake up in the morning and the sunlight hurts my eyes, and something without warning bears heavy on my mind,
Then I look at you and the world's alright with me.
Just one look at you and I know it's gonna be a lovely day."

03/21/2024

"I can hear her heart beat from a thousand miles and the heaven opens everytime she smiles."

03/20/2024

"Every morning when I rise, I wipe the sleep out from my eyes.
Ask myself the question - why, oh why, was I born?
I got up; I saw them all. All God's creatures, great and small.
It came in clear as a local call, why I was born. I was born to love you.

I was born to love you. I was born for love."

03/19/2024

"I close my eyes at night, wondering where would I be without you in my life."

03/18/2024

"I never thought I'd be in this situation, it seems wherever I go I'm with you,
And though I never seem to find my place, at every turn I see your face."

03/15/2024

"When the world is ready to fall on your little shoulders, and when you're feeling lonely and small - if you need somebody there to hold you, you can call out my name."

A wish for a happy St. Patrick's Day to you and yours. Have a beautiful weekend.

03/14/2024

"Let me say that since, since we've been together, loving you forever is what I need.
Let me be the one you come running to, I'll never be untrue."

03/13/2024

"I didn't think she could hear my S.O.S, but she appeared like an angel of tenderness."

03/12/2024

Just one song I can't honestly expect anyone to recognize its lyrics, but one of my all-time favorite bands, and one hell of an album if you're ever curious.

"Watching the rain through a crack in the window, it's the little things that get you through.
Like the same sun rising on me is rising over you."

Sun breaks I can't waitTill I'll be on my way againI'm sick and tired of waitingWith nothing to doWatching the rain through a crack in the windowIt's the lit...

03/12/2024

"Throw off the covers, open the windows - I don't care what we do.
I've been standing for days, now I get to fall down with you."

03/11/2024

"So lift your eyes if you feel you can, reach for a star and I'll show you a plan.
I figured it out, what I needed was someone to show me."

03/08/2024

"And when the rain is beating upon the windowpane, and when the night it gets so cold, when I can't sleep - you come to me.
I hold you tight, the rain disappears."

03/07/2024

"I have danced inside your eyes; how can I be real?"

03/06/2024

"You brought your Sunday morning sunshine here into my Monday morning rain.
You taught me happiness just one time, it keeps on coming back again."

03/05/2024

"The morning came so swiftly as I held her in my arms, but she slept like a baby, snug and safe from harm."

Not quite snug and asleep, and certainly not the greatest photo you'll ever see but I think that it's in what the photo captures that is far more important than perfection. Blanche, so happy and playfully sharing a couch with a friend - a picture that, in its imperfection, leaves so much to the imagination.

03/04/2024

Long one of my favorite artists, J.D. Souther hasn't always put out albums in prolific fashion - the man made a fortune thanks to The Eagles having hits with some of his writing - rather, it seems, the guy puts an album out about once every 5 years or so. The Dixie Chicks covered this on that beautiful debut album of theirs so many years back, the original having been on Souther's 1984 lp "Home By Dawn." I never expected anyone to guess where the lyrics in today's post came from and I love this song.

Provided to YouTube by Rhino/Warner RecordsI'll Take Care of You · JD SoutherHome By Dawn℗ 1984 Warner Records Inc.Producer: David MalloyGuitar, Vocals: J. D...

03/04/2024

"Nights are long and dreams are cold, if they're all you wake up to.
But should you rise with crying eyes then I'll take care of you."

03/01/2024

I once said to a friend that it wouldn't bother me if only a handful of people ever read what I wrote, but rather that if one person - that one person - read my post and was moved enough to action then I'd accomplished all I'd set out for and more. With my friend Blanche my only hope is that you meet her. I know in my heart that Blanche will take care of everything else, that she will win your heart over. I started my week and I will end it in the same fashion - for I had to say goodbye to a friend of 18 years. When I inherited my Uncle Bill's home I had to bring the cats over to the house on West 134th street nearly 11 years ago, one by one - and I only had one cat carrier. I'm certain that this was scary on many levels for (at the time) all three of the cats. Two would watch me leave with one, for I can't remember the order in which I took them, and I would come back alone each time. I know they don't like the carrier, and I'm sure the ride in the car wasn't especially enjoyable. I knew they'd be okay, they didn't. What I remember is searching the house later that day for Wesley. I couldn't find him. I was afraid. Turned out that he'd gone into the small closet in my uncle's bedroom, lying there on a small piece of carpet in a fashion that a feral would take should you try to domesticate them. I picked him up and held him as I tried to assure him that he was home here in this strange, new world. That all of this was his. I've thought again and again of that moment so much this week because in time Wesley lost his sight, and all the while without it he navigated the house perfectly. I was never prouder or more amazed of my friend. I'll never forget the time I turned around upstairs to find that he'd followed me. Up a set of steps! He left me with so many memories, he loved me without limit. In his final year each and every day I sat down on the living room couch Wesley would jump up to join me, settling with his head resting upon my leg. Blanche is no different than my Wesley, for she will bring you memory upon memory - she will add more love to your life than you can imagine in your wildest dreams. And one day - should you bring her home - you will look back as you miss her and think the same as I. That you wouldn't have traded your time together for all the riches in the world.

02/29/2024

"I'll be the ocean so deep and wide and catch the tears whenever you cry.
I'll be the breeze after the storm is gone to dry your eyes and love you warm."

02/28/2024

"I see myself within your eyes, and that's all I need to show me why everything I do always takes me home to you."

02/27/2024

"I'll love you twice as much tomorrow."

02/26/2024

I wouldn't have traded anything in the entire world for the nearly 18 years I was so lucky to have had with my Wesley - nearly 17 with his brother Dalton (on the right) - adopted from Lakewood's Animal Shelter all those years ago. My heart and my thoughts are elsewhere today, but if I may do nothing else today - may I tell you from the bottom of my heart how rewarding it was to have made a difference in their lives? May I tell you that I have more great memories of the time we had than I could ever recount to you? May I tell you that you could make that same difference by adopting Blanche. That you may build as many memories and possibly even more?

02/23/2024

"Keep your eyes on the horizon.
When you start to missing me, just look out your window and there I'll be."

02/22/2024

"Or can it be that like love, I am blind? Do I want it so much 'til it's all in my mind?
One thing I know for sure is really, really real I never felt before the way you make me feel."

02/21/2024

"When the road gets dark and you can no longer see, just let my love throw a spark - and have a little faith in me."

02/20/2024

"In the morning when I closed my eyes, you were sleeping in paradise.
While the room was growing light, I was holding still with all my might."

02/19/2024

"I'm not the kind to use a pencil or rule, I'm handy with love and I'm no fool.
I fix broken hearts, I know I truly can."

02/16/2024

"Just like the sun over the mountaintop, you know I'll always come again.
You know I love to spend my mornings like sunlight dancing on your skin."