small miracles

I've always wanted to be the kind of person who sent Christmas cards annually. Maybe even with a little newsletter chronicling the previous year of my life updating friends and family with the revolving door of jobs I've had and cities I've lived in. This year I am halfway there. I am creating cards using a sketch I did of Lucy about a year ago. She looks so peaceful here. Of course most of my sketches of her are sleeping ones since that is the only time she is still enough for me to draw. I also think this sketch reflects how the holidays would be in my ideal world - slower, lazier, with enough time to enjoy the small miracles we so often take for granted. I hope you are able to enjoy a Christmas like that. Me? I'm going to go enjoy this little miracle with a game of fetch and a short snooze on the couch.

lucy

Top Ten Reasons I Have the Best Dog Ever

10. She is relentlessly hopeful. One day she will catch that squirrel.

9. She does the best pathetic starving orphan impression.

8. When she gets too excited about a treat, she just does all of her tricks in a row in hopes that one of them is right (Have you ever seen a dog shake/roll over/play dead/sit?)

7. When I cry, she comes to sit by me, usually offering me a toy and putting her head in my lap.

6. When I wake up in the morning I inevitably only have about 6 inches of space left to occupy, while she snuggles into me, but I'm warm.

5. I haven't had to clean up food off the floor in years.

4. She does somersaults. Seriously.

3. When she pulls on her leash in pursuit of the aforementioned squirrel, causing me to do a sprawling slide into the mud, it's a great reminder not to take life too seriously.

2. Even though she has chewed two legs off her stuffed tiger, it still squeaks and remains her most treasured possession.

1. She lets me curl up by her, rest my head on her side, and fall asleep after a long day. Somehow she knows I need it.