I apologize if I have become repetitive but this blog however is all about December 14, 2007 and a matter of just a couple of minutes on that morning.

I have become all consumed with this day and with what some would say are a series of chance happenings. I know better, I know miracles when I see them.

Any little delay or different decision made and I would not be here typing this tribute to God.

This is the eve of a new year and as we all like to do I am reflecting on the year that almost wasn’t. I have started to call every day that I wake up one more day in the “Bonus Round.”

I don’t want to sound morbid but if you only knew how easy the transition from life to death really is it would both give you piece of mind that it is pretty much painless and it can also scare the hell out of you at just how easy it can be.

What a glorious year it has been. I am surrounded by love. I have taken a wife and this woman is the reason our Lord spared me. I have become like Dr. Dolittle in that I am surrounded by animals that seem to understand my every word and offer up their whole hearted love.

I went from just a few short years ago of being a lonely man that didn’t really care if I lived or died to being what I am today, a man that has found happiness and is scared that irony will catch up with me now that I am happy and take it all away, including my life.

This blog was started with a purpose, to find a way to help others. I have strayed in a million other directions, but they have all been inspired by one single thing, “LOVE.” My early post’s I always included what I thought was an important point so on this New Years Eve I would like to close with what I have learned over the last year to be the most important point of all.

Closing Important point:

Pictured at the top of this post is a little puppy named Matilda Lou, this photo is a symbol of what I have learned in the last year.

Surround yourself in love, drink it in, live it, anywhere and everywhere you can find it.

Make memories, share them, tell your story, hide nothing, we are all the same and we are all different.

Love – love – love – love, you can never love too much. Find it in a mate or find it in a pet or find it in a friend. Don’t be too picky, love is love, no matter where it comes from.

Dorothy, family, friends, and my little zoo, I love you and thank you for the love you give to me.

Lonnie