Dog Breath

I am ashamed to say I haven't been on Steemit for months. Life got a bit overwhelming for a long while. Many deaths...many changes...lots of stress...tears....and confusion. I don't say this as an excuse. This is not an excuse at all. When I get overwhelmed I tend to pull back and hide from the world the best I can. Thats what I did. I hid for a long time. I held in my feelings and I fell deeper and deeper into this black hole that I couldn't figure out how to get back out of, as desperate as I was to do so. Eventually one day, I woke up. My eyes opened and I pulled my baby (Doodles) over to me and I just held on to him so tight and cried and cried and cried. He just let me hold him and made sure none of the tears made it to my pillow. One by one he licked them off as I cried and cried and cried. When I logged on today for the first time in like...8 months I think...I saw @MarianneWest had posted another writing prompt. I thought bless this woman for being so steadfast and sticking to this thing this whole time. It was nice to see some familiarity. These pulled me out of a funk before and I have faith they will once again bring me into the light of day. I saw it was "Dog breath" and it made me smile. I am changing careers at the end of the month and will no longer be a dog walker. I have been especially sad today about it because I had to send out the official emails to my clients letting them know that I will miss their babies so very much and hope they will have me back to visit some day. I saw "Dog Breath" and a million memories raced through my mind. As weird as it sounds...I will miss my daily washes in kisses, leaving me covered in stinky, wet, slimy, loving, purely magical, dog breath.

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