As the days continue to spread their light over more minutes of each new day, the intensity of that light remains gentle. I’ll take that as a message: Go slowly.
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Laura Nicole Diamond is the author of Shelter Us: a novel, Dance with Me: a love letter, and editor of the anthology Deliver Me: True Confessions of Motherhood. She is at work on a memoir about becoming a foster mom to a teenage asylum-seeker. Follow more of her writing on Medium.
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Thank you for sharing!
It is definitely OK! MORE THAN THAT!!!! YOU ARE DEFINITELY OK!
Thank you, Jackee!
Love how dogs enrich your life. Bumper and I often lay together in the early morning. He licks my arms and I rub his soft fur. Your sweet pups are also worth extra morning time.
Our pups can slow us down, or rev us up, and can keep us in the moment if we let them.