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All aboard  Last weekend I witnessed joy. My 12 year old granddaughter Lydia, on stage, playing Annie, spread her little arms, lifted her face to the front lights, and sang out loud and true, “Tomorrow, tomorrow I love ya tomorrow. You’re only a daaaaay a-waaaaaaaaaay …” She was absolutely in the zone. She had found…

Acts of Kindness, Paid Forward: Random and Planned Randomness Gifted Recently, Anastasia and I were having dinner at one of the restaurants that is described in the travel books as $$. When we asked for our check at the end of the meal, we were informed that someone who we did not know had already…

Lola says “Oh Look: Squirrel,” and then… Easter Sunday Perfect Spring like weather. Sun shining in a pale blue cloudless sky. New green leaves of the forsythia dance in the breeze. Tiny white crocus flowers randomly dot the mulch. New orange buds on the tree branches are ready to burst. The morning temperature is cool,…

Perfection Rainbow Eagle I recently had an opportunity to reconnect with a friend of mine who also happens to be a powerful resource of ancient Native American wisdom. He is an Elder of the Oklahoma Choctaw Nation who travels the world, teaching, learning and integrating the information that is shared with him. He has been…

Just do it, already.  Have you been reading these weekly newsletters for awhile? Every workshop, we ask people why they chose to take their training in canine massage with PetMassageTM. They tell us that they have been reading these weekly newsletters for years and have just been waiting for the right time to take their…

Pearly Gaits: You and Dogs Moving Balanced and Confident Confidence and balance There is a connection between the confidence and balance of the handler/PetMassageTM practitioner and the confidence and balance of dog. In the show ring, the handler and dog must have a strong bond to be successful. If the handler is sick, nervous, unsure,…

Moving to the beat of the heart Chakras 1-3 and 4 Last week we discussed the lower three chakras. The lower three are the foundation for maintaining life. As we move up your dog’s chakras, the higher we go, they become more and more connected and responsive to cognitive, reasoned and spiritually intuitive function. The…

Going to a Happy Place I’m requested to meditate. During a recent Reflexology session I was asked to go to a happy place; that is, to meditate, while I was being grounded out. We all have happy places. Events, snapshots of times when we felt loved, protected, on purpose, one with everything. In times past…

News flash: Hokkaido Garden The news we are told Oh, the weather outside is frightful… It is so easy to be lured into the lurid and scary mass media hysteria. It is easy to believe what we’re told is happening in the world. It’s sometimes difficult to turn off and tune out the negativity set…

Outlines, an experience in contrasts We ran into a dilemma while creating the rolling titles for a new YouTube that will be downloadable from the website in January. The font I chose for the titles is Arial and its color is white. And while it shows up nicely when it is rolling over a dark…

Which side are you on? Noble Fringe offers choices Last week I attended a meeting of our local Green Party. It was an activist subset of our community’s well-intentioned citizenry. They are the ones who identify and verbalize the most dire, most profoundly disturbing issues of our time. They are the noble fringe. They have…

The Look A workshop student became irritated that her dog had embarked on a barking jag. What had started as a simple call for attention had escalated into a loud unstoppable flood of rhyming sounds, much like an urban poetry open mic night. My student was unable to concentrate on the lecture and felt responsible…

The eye roll, not your everyday sushi. eye-roll·ing noun 1. the action of rolling one’s eyes, typically as an expression of exasperation, disbelief, or disapproval. –Oxford Dictionary Looking upward with an expression of contempt, often combined with a sigh. Used to indicate frustration and annoyance with the stupidity of a person or thing. – Urban…

Change is scary; and, change is the only way we grow. “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.”-Albert Einstein “If your dog always acts, moves, and lives how he’s always moved, acted, and lived, he will always move, act and live the way he does.”- Jonathan…

Bike light George is a friend of ours who lives and works in Chicago. His bike is his primary means of transportation. Chicago streets are often precarious. He has to stay ever vigilant of the quality of the pavement, to the pedestrians stepping out from between parked cars, and the busy traffic around him. The…

Two framed photographs  Reiki enhancement Attended a show at an art gallery recently. Saw two identical framed photographs one was priced $50 more than the other. The only difference was that the more expensive one had a little sign under it stating it had been Reiki’d. Energetically charged. Aligned. Blessed. I thought to myself, and…

The time has come for another high school reunion. How time flies when we are having fun! The class reunion committee asked us to complete a questionnaire for the event; and one of the questions was “What advice would you give yourself as a high school senior, knowing what you know, now?” I came up…

Canine Massage Scope of Practice Canine massage is a profession. As such it has a description of what it can do. The description includes limitations for our practice. This blog is about the scope, range, of our practice of canine massage. In light of my offering advice to dogs’ owners and to canine massage practitioners…

Space is our only frontier The one who owns and controls the space is the leader. This goes for leading board meetings, giving presentations, performing in theater, playing music, holding your audience’s attention while ice skating, and controlling the high ground in the military.   When we describe space we are usually referring to the…

Endorphins are forever  Last week I sat with a Toledo Zen Buddhist group, Glass City Dharma, doing some self work. My goal was to quiet my mind. It was a 30 minute seated silent meditation. In my head it was a very busy half hour. An exercise in the intentional cur-tail-ment of tangent thought. Oh…

If you are in business for any length of time, you experience good times and bad. At the PetMassageTM School in Toledo Ohio, dog massage and dog massage instruction have been offered for seventeen years. We’ve experienced mostly prosperous times and we’ve experienced times that one could generously describe as “lean.” We remember the brief…

Each morning when I enter my living room, I am welcomed by the glistening reflection of the sun on the leaves of our house plants. We have an East facing home and the 3-4 foot tall plants are arranged as a mini greenhouse beneath the front window. When I lived in Chicago, spending time in…

I had an idea. Not in the sense that it was a thought that I had in the past. More in the sexual connotation, as in, I was consumed, moved, enveloped, excited, engaged, and changed, by the experience of thinking something I’d not thought of before. I experienced being in a confluence of a number…

Each of us has a unique way of interacting with dogs. Every touch, every look, every thought is imbued with our individual histories. Your touch, how you offer it, for expectations, and how you interpret the way it is received is yours and yours alone. Even though we share space, time and experiences, we can…

The dog’s caregiver was sitting on a sofa watching me give his elderly dog a PetMassage. He asked me how I could tell his dog was responding to the bodywork. I instructed him to watch the color of his dog’s tongue. The tongue, I told him, is an accurate gauge of his dog’s immediate level…

The following was the presentation as published in the AHVMA 2013 Conference Prospectus. The 3 hour lecture was delivered Monday, August 26, 2013 in Kansas City, MO in the Lido Room of the Marriot Hotel. The actual presentation was a blend of this printed content and the extemporaneous comments about the PowerPoint images and responses…