My Dog, My Guru

Some readers may know that I published a book a few years ago, ostensibly written by my dogs and called How to Look after your Human. While I used the first person as if I were writing as a dog, the author writes from the human perspective about the lessons that we can learn from dogs, which all dog owners will recognise. It is about trust, living in the now, gratitude, practising unconditional love, play, patience ans putting aside conditioning. The last chapter is devoted to the dog poses, namely downward dog and the upward facing dog – of which our dog Joey does a variation, namely stretching his paws and straight up in the air. Only today, I was saying how much richer life would be if we were all equally enthusiastic about our daily routine, especially walks! Simple but significant wisdom.