What can I say

After losing it 2 years ago, my drive to work with dogs full time is back.

Previously I burnt out due to so many reasons, least of them was a desire to help & being frustrated that progress wasn’t being made. Well it is just that which has knocked my sense back into place, after being so annoyed at others falling by the wayside, I felt I should be honest with myself.

After a couple of bumpy days with the previous incumbent hanging around, it was a lot easier with them out of my shadow to get on & do the job of Shelter Manager @ Care for Dogs Foundation.

The major ‘get up to speed’ work is now done and the maintenance needs improving in terms of process and ease. I am a workaholic but not because I like it, rather because I cannot stand stuff not getting done. If something needs doing, I will get on with it. Other folks either ask (&fail) for others to do it or think about doing it after they have done the current thing they are focused on. Well, as with our style of living our lives, we travel along a road and take off shoots and side roads to explore along the way. Me, I do that out of habit in everything I do. Go and do 1 thing and arrive having done several more things on the way.

When I wrote & read Teresa’s words at her funeral, I meant every word, “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today”, a saying she reminded me almost daily that her Father had taught her. Teresa would not go to bed with dishes unwashed, things talked about now rather than later and feelings expressed at the time, rather than suppressed and hidden till later.

Once again I thank Teresa, a beautiful person I only knew for 18 years for the shape of my mind today. My regret is that I didn’t meet her sooner and allow the Victorian upbringing to be discarded earlier, let alone know her longer but sadly in body, that was not to be. It was her time to go and she is with me in my daily life because she changed me. But I do miss her & would love to talk with her now.