Posts Tagged ‘Birds’

Remembering who I am

Monday, January 4th, 2010

When I was growing up, I was always surrounded by animals.

Taken many, many years ago with my pitbull mix Donder.

Shannon & Donder, taken many, many years ago.

My childhood memories include caring for a wide variety of animals.  So many times my parents would take to a pet store or zoo. Each time I would connect with a critter of some sort. It upset me seeing them in confinement, knowing how limited they were in what they could do, how helpless and innocent they were. I would do my best to tell them that they would be okay and that I would send them love even when I wasn’t near by. I swore that they understood.

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