Tomorrow I pick up Zoe the Rescued Dog from her foster parents' home. She is a bichon frise that lived with a couple who were in love. Then they were not in love anymore. Zoe, now 4, was basically emotionally abandoned for over a year. She has been crated about 12 hrs a day. She has no toys. She now will have me, my home and as much joy and peace and she wants and needs. And of course, as usual, I found a spiritual lesson here. Or, like a gift from G-d, it found me.

Epiphanies never seem to arrive in convenient places. My latest arrived at 10pm in my car on a drive back from Massachusetts. I hope it changes my life; and, I believe it will. Life change is often the result of a small change of view – a tiny shift in perception. Then “whammo” the world looks different, and dominoes are not automatically falling over each other the way they once did. Old broken places feel as though they might just heal. Slot A no longer painfully connects to Tab B.