Bright Lights

As the days get shorter and shorter and the darkness gets longer and longer, I am clinging to my whole health group like a life raft.  Austin isn't helping much.  He says that going to his kennel in the morning in the dark and then coming home from the kennel at night in the dark has driven his anxiety to new heights.  He can barely walk he is shaking so hard.  I tell Austin these short days are driving me to despair too.  Everything is so bleak and dreary and we are not even at the shortest day yet.  Daisy interjects into the doom and gloom club and tells Austin and I to quit moaning.  Apparently darkness can house wonderful things too.  Daisy says that behind that refrigerator door is a whole box of delectable darkness and if she can just master this opposable thumb thing, she is going to have one wee of a time in that dark box.  Austin tells Daisy that she may have a point because just tonight he saw this train going past on the horizon with beautiful lights all over it.  He only saw it because the bright lights glowed in the dark.  Monty joins in and tells us that at this time of year if he angles his body just so in the yard, the motion sensor light makes him glow like gold.  When that happens, he feels like a million bucks.  OK Austin I say, we just need to find our bright light that makes us glow each day.  Some days finding that light is going to be harder than others but we gotta do it.  Today though is a real easy one for me because 14 years ago a little boy was born and he is one of my bright lights.  Happy Birthday Moe!