{"id":2151,"date":"2010-04-30T08:46:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T12:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/photocardblog\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2010-04-30T08:46:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T12:46:21","slug":"om-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/om-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"OM :: The Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"om<\/a>OM is *one moment* and is a new meetup designed to notice & relish a moment in everyday life. The meetup idea was created by Linda at her blog, a la mode stuff<\/a>.
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\nIf you’d like to participate in OM, just click the button and you’ll be taken to Linda’s post explaining it all. After you read this post, of course \ud83d\ude09
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\nMy moment this week was a glimpse of reality. This sweet girl, whom I’ve based my business around and who is part of the heart of our family, is getting old. The kind of old where you look at the numbers of a life span and she is at the far end.
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\nMy girl, Scout, will be 9-years-old this August. We’ve had her with us since she was just weeks old. Other than the gray hair on her chin and sleeping more than she used to, I don’t really think about her getting older. But this past week there was a palpable moment of knowing. Knowing that this dog will not live forever. And it breaks my heart a little just in the “knowing.”
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\nBut we don’t live life that way. That knowing moment should clarify the living part of life and help us celebrate every moment we can. That’s how Scout lives life and how I aspire to.<\/p>\n
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