Dear Darcie, Let me take this opportunity to tell you what a bright light you’ve been in my life this last year. I have a number of similar things going on, and lost my terv at 14+ last Jan. Seeing Kate’s pics and hearing about your process has been amazing. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your process and I hope all the changes will bring only good going forward. I first got to know you and Kent via Belg-L many years ago, and you were generous with great advice on books when I adopted Conor. So, we have a long history 
. Kristin
Dear Kristin, Life is good even when things may seem really bad. Life just is. I know that it’s true. I think that God directs us to a new path with happenings that seem to us at the time as bad things. Perhaps we weren’t listening to His gentle guidance so he put real brick walls in our path to get us to change our life journey. In my case, I was staying with my husband until death do us part no matter what. He wanted to leave everything he knew, the good and the bad, and all that he’d worked for and go make his life somewhere else, he said, and he did. That’s all I’ll say about that here.
I read my Bible every night before I go to sleep, a chapter or two and I sleep well. I’ve read it all the way through 2 times in my life and I’m doing it again. I don’t pretend to understand how peace is given to me so deep in my being, I sure am glad that it is. I simply believe that life is good. Faith. The Bible is a pretty interesting book and just the reading of it adds to my peacefulness. Even in the hardest of the times it gave me comfort and I didn’t lose a night’s sleep in the whole time my life was changing…that’s a pretty powerful statement for the words.
You know, the one thing that tells me the most about my big life change these past few years and that it was instrumented by God’s hand is that…Dancer’s passing in June 2009 was the thing that hurt me most in the past four years. That tells me that my heart had been being blessed with a readiness for what was going to happen. I miss Dancer less and less these days and I’m glad about that. I sure did love that dog to pieces. Losing her really hurt.
I think Everyone should have a higher being, a universal oneness, a higher self, some kind of strength of a wonderful and good kind to rely on in times of good and bad. It makes life so much easier.
Nothing gets me down for long, I believe that all things happen for the good. My home is peaceful and it’s lovely and clean. If I lost my house tomorrow, it would still all be good. A house isn’t a home. It’s the heart and the love that make a home and that can be wherever you are.
Kate and I are happy and doing great. She fell off the bed last night! Woke me out of a sound sleep. I think she was sleeping so soundly that she wasn’t sure what happened either. She got back into bed and we went back to sleep. – Peace Everybody. – Darcie
Darcie , No one has to tell me about the changws that lfe throws at you ,some good and some bad . 16 years ago I had not one dog in this house and Legacy Kennels did not exist ,it took the hand of God intoducing me to a 4 legged angel named Jasmine ,who was about to be put down by the SPCA for being rejected twice ,and was on their TV show “Pets on Parade”after suffering a TIA Miny Stroke ,we both needed one another ! I had trained horses and we had 4 ,and I loved my 1st Farrah a 14 year old dappled grey Arabian/Standard bred with all my heart ,of all the horses I had . I knew from the time I was 8 years old that I would be good with them ,as my father ,before WWII handled Army mules ,and I have cousins that work as Pa State Trooper K-9 units . In short I am nutrally good with animals ,and my training of Jasmine became a life changing experiance . Like Jessie she was not a pure bred ,and not even a bird dog though it said pointer mix on her kennel card ,she was Lab /Setter mix or blu /heeler about 50/50 wich made her very smart even with out a DNA test . It was me stopping feeling sorry for my self ,and getting out in the desert with her and a Mr Ray Klinefeld ,who is one of the top pointing dog trainers here in Phoenix ,that I learned to do what I do today ,so that is why the walking in the desert with her that has given me 16 years of a wonderfull life ,and knowing Joshua our English Pointer NASTRA ch and his pups that formed his Legacy after he passed at 6yrs and left us with a litter of 8 puppys . God works in misterious ways ,but knowing my dogs has changed me into a better man ,and the lesson has been learned ,and if I am lucky the love story will go on with Jessie for another 16 more years ! John K. Legacy Kennels
Ah yes dogs wether pure breed or mix or just plain mutts, they are definitely guardian Angels with fourpaws and a tail. And a most wonderful gift from the Spirit-in- the-Sky!