Three years ago today I stood in the airport terminal with a brightly colored sign that read “Gidget.” My heart pounding. Tears close to the surface ready to spill over.
Was I really going to do this again? Care for another special needs dachshund with disc disease? Gidget would be my third.
My last dachshund, Joie, passing four months before was still an ache in my heart. But I felt sure that loving another would help heal my tender heart — though I’d never forget dear Joie.
She was wrapped in a red blanket as the owner of the rescue walked toward me. My heart beat faster and tears now blurred my eyes as she placed the dappled pup in my arms.
Gidget was now home and so was my fragile heart – full up it was, with the invigorating balm of joy that only opening to love again can do.
While there have been some challenging times with Gidget, it has opened new portals of understanding of myself once again – just like all the dogs I’ve loved before her have done. Just when I thought I’d come a long way, Miss Gidget brought with her more lessons for me to learn.
All my dogs have been a mirror to me and what I needed to better understand for my own evolution. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to me that Gidget is that, too. But it continues to awe me how dogs can help us heal.
I’ve said from the beginning that I feel Gidget is a Buddha Dog – her purpose to remind me to keep my center and find balance when I find myself on the verge of losing sight of what is important to me – which is embodying the truth of who I am and what I believe makes for a meaningful and joyful life.
And while Gidget is that mirror for me, I see that I am that for her, too. When I live from that sacred space within that fills me with peace and calm, this in turn helps her to do the same.
We live in harmony with each other, a give and take, a coming together in the middle, a place where we exist together in the sweetest bliss that is pure joy and love.
That is my Gidget, and I while I celebrate her everyday, today I say a grateful thank you for the gift of 1,095 days of real love that she has been.
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