Who doesn’t think puppies are cute?

Most people will agree and if they are allergic or have some other aversion, they might secretly think that at least they are adorable in pictures.

I’ve been watching 3 litters of Huskies in the past 2 weeks – what a blessing. I don’t think I’ve smiled that much in a long time.

People are like puppies once you remove their camouflage.

A puppy has only one goal. To get to mom and get her love and nourishment. You can tell that nothing else matters. If you sit with yourself and remove all external stimuli, I think you’ll realize that is also your PRIMARY goal. We just seem to have so much other garbage that gets in the way.

Puppies surprisingly are very dependent. Their eyes aren’t even open for about 2-3 weeks! They can’t poop or pee on their own. They need mama’s stimulation for that (I don’t think they care either – until, of course, it hurts too much..lol). Horses, on the other hand, can see and even walk almost immediately at birth.

Even at my own old age and with my previous puppy experience, I didn’t know those facts. It’s amazing they survive in the “wild”. Thank goodness for mothers.

It’s not that we humans need help pooping and peeing – most parents are probably laughing at this. Infants have absolutely no problem performing their bodily functions. But, we are dependent in so many other ways – often ways we don’t want to admit.

Often our eyes aren’t open either. The eyelids might be but is there a connection there between the outside world and the brain? The eyes don’t see, they just carry signals (another neural circuit – you’ve heard me talk a lot about neural circuits). The brain receives the signals and then interprets those signals. That’s where things get individual. What I see may not be what you see because you don’t have the same framework I do. You haven’t been to all the places I’ve been and vice versa. I wasn’t taught the same things you were.

Puppies squirm and crawl all over anything and anyone including their family members. It’s not that they want to hurt anyone else, they just are focused on one thing – getting to the milk and warmth that mama provides.

People squirm and crawl all over anything and anyone including their family members. Sometimes, though, they do hurt others, but really deep down, in the majority of the cases, they don’t do that intentionally. We may not realize that, again because of the experiences we have. In actuality, though, we are all after the same thing – love and nourishment – physical, emotional and mental nourishment.

Puppies and people just want to cuddle. Before you cringe and go “oh no, not me, I don’t like to be touched” realize that this is your camouflage. It’s all about love!

A word about camouflage – we don’t always choose our camouflage. Often the first layers are applied by our parents, siblings, peers, teachers, religious figures and media. Unfortunately we don’t have a lot of choice about that layer. By the time we get to where we can pick our wardrobe, that feels great. But, you don’t realize that you have those base layers and now you’re hiding them. They are still there though. When you get hot (things are not going so well), you may not understand that you have to shed some of those base layers just as we do in Texas – where it’s 40 degrees in the morning and 80 by 2 in the afternoon. But the layer issue is for another post.

Be a puppy!

(I bet you expected my photo to be of puppies..Sorry to disappoint but if I had puppy pictures, I wouldn’t have time to be posting)