#It's a dog's life

[tomoleary]

Larry Todd "It's A Dog's Life” cover (1981)

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[billiejean485]

Rover Dangerfield (1991)

This movie has been replaying itself in my brain rent-free for days - and I still can't gather the will to rewatch it. XD

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[canisalbus]

✦ Freshly ordained ✦

[asteroidtroglodyte]

5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

10 years ago, I was watching my Potential and Opportunities dissolve and evaporate in an ocean of cheap gin and expensive whiskey.

But 5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

One of the exercises they had us perform was to imagine ourselves happy, 5 years in the future.

Many of us in that room had forgotten how to imagine nice things happening to them. A few snorted (well, I snorted), finding the notion that we’d even still be around in 5 years grimly humorous.

For about half of us, it was the last stop on the way down.

But I indulged the therapist. I was there, after all, because I did not want to die. So, I imagined myself, 5 years hence.

Happy.

It came to me all at once; an artistic remix on Norman Rockwell’s Freedom From Want, reframed with myself placing food at the table.

Sunday Dinner At My Place, I answered, when it came my turn to share my fantasy. I was asked what food I imagined eating.

It’s not the meal itself, I said, it’s the implications framed around it. Sunday Dinner At My Place means that I have a Place. It means that I have Family that will actually speak to me and friends who actually want to see me. It means money enough not just to feed myself but others too. It means having the time to spare to take the time preparing the meal.

A lot of nodding heads all around me. A struck chord. Many people with no Place, in that place. Nowhere that would lament their leaving.

5 years hence, as I lay down to sleep in my Home, with my Wife and my Son, surrounded by my Art and my Flowers, I reflect.

It was a long road. It was hard. We lost people. So many people. There were long days and long nights and hospital stays. Angry arguments with ghosts. I changed, in ways I never hoped for, or expected. Good ways, finally, for once. Slowly, against the backdrop of a world in chaos, I found my mind.

Sometimes, My Wife wondered aloud, what she did to deserve me. After some stumbling with my feelings, I eventually settled on an answer.

I’m a Rescue.

She gave me a Home.

And, so, I gave her a Family.

It seemed fair

This Sunday, my folks, which whom I have not had a shouting match in years, will come over for dinner. We will cook and eat together. My Friend became My Wife, and she took a piece of me and with it she made Our Son. There will be many hugs, and no violence. Good Things Happened.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t know what the future holds.

don’t give up yet, ok?

It could get good, even.

[doghowto]

Man unintentionally teaches his Corgi sign language! 😊 Follow me for more smart puppers!

[lux-et-tenebrus]

On this cold, miserable day, enjoy some tucked-in puppers

[53v3nfrn5]

Dingle Bay, Ireland (1993) photog. Sam Abell

[gastrophobia]

Friendly reminder!

[seven-of-canine-dssd-4890]

Bambi was such a good girl and listened to her files all night and woke up SO HAPPY (and horny of course)

Brought owner coffee in bed and was rewarded with the contents owner's full bladder running down her face in the shower. Owner even let her suck her after!! BONUS!!

[cerealdog]

Session 3 is just people being appalled by other people's decisions

And important questions

[otherearthsoutthere]

I know I post too many pictures of Tribble in the water, but I cannot get over how his fur doesn’t get wet but floats around him. He’s been in the creek for 10 minutes now.

[spicyraeman]

maybe this'll stay a wip or maybe it won't, either way what's more fun than learning that ur bandmate can't hold her drink than by finding her sitting in a dark corner mid way through the afterparty

[randalltier]

You can choose only ONE no in-between answers. Be brave and bold and decisive and elaborate in the tags if you wish

[junewi02]

He's having gay thoughts

Happy Pride Month! 🌈

[doghowto]

Everybody finding just the right spot... 😺 Follow me for more dog & cat pals!