Even though Nooka was “my dog” — almost as much as I was “her human” — I did spend the majority of her life away from the farm (mostly working & living in Germany) and thus away from her … Nooka had other friends, of course — my mother, my stepfather, several employees of my […]
One of my favorite things to do when I was living at the farm (off and on from 2006 through 2011) was work in the woods … Nooka almost always went with me whenever I did so, and would go exploring nearby while I pruned tree branches and cleared felled logs and trimmed back overgrown […]
Even the most ardent of cat-lovers will have to admit that most cats (at least by far most of the cats I have encountered and cared for and befriended) can take a bit of getting used to — and this is especially true for most dogs … Where dogs are most often open, cats are […]
Nooka LOVED exploring the woods. The funny thing was, she would never ever ever do so alone. But man-oh-man, as soon as you picked up your walking stick and asked her if she wanted to go for a walk, she literally jumped up in the air and tore off down the main path behind the […]
Nooka knew best how to Love people — how to really truly LOVE them. She greeted everyone she met as though she had rediscovered a long lost Soulmate, she attended to all in her immediate presence as though they were the only ones there, and then when the time for the parting of ways inevitably […]
She came like the wind, we know not from where. And she soothed like the wind as well, with her humor when we needed “cooling down” and her tenderness when our hearts needed “warming up” … When we walked in the woods she would like the wind disappear for a time, and yet somehow she […]
One of the things I liked almost as much as Nooka’s sweeter than sweet personality was her gorgeous face. Part Siberian Husky, part wolf (we are pretty sure), and part German Shepherd, she had the most amazing eyes and facial features, and I really loved watching her so clearly “communicate” with the same …
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused … And yet when we choose to embody Love fully; when we choose to give it raw, without holding […]
It was 2 years ago today that I lost one of my best Friends — my dog companion, Nooka … My brother and I found Nooka across the street from a truck stop when she was roughly 2 years old back in the summer of 2006 — well, it is far more accurate to say […]
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