You know what I love about Zeus? I mean, aside from the fact that he’s some kind of incredible, higher-plane being with the capacity and fullness of heart to love unconditionally, encounter joy freely and live completely in the now. Aside from all that.

What I really love about Zeus is how he reminds me to slow down.

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It’s so easy to get lost in the thicket of everyday tasks. The things we have to do, the people we have to see, the places we have to go. Deadlines, due dates, appointments,

notes scribbled in the confines of one-inch calendar squares — all the stuff that might be life, but isn’t necessarily living.

It’s so easy to get tangled up in all of it, so easy to get caught in the struggle from one mundane emergency to the next. But maybe that’s just what makes us human — that we are bound by a force that, at once, can both compel us to strive and disallow us to thrive.

But dogs aren’t anything like that, though — and maybe that’s why we love them so much. I know it’s one of the myriad reasons I love my dog.

Zeus reminds me to slow down. Zeus reminds me to live.

Brooke Keane
Editor, West Suburban Dog
editor@westsuburbandog.com

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