Steps to Forget My Cares and Accept Unconditional Love

My hand sits gently and lightly on top of his buttery soft noggin at the end of a brutal and ridiculously long day. He turns his delicate face to look at me... out of the corner of his penetrating eye. The beauty of his coloring is so striking it makes me think of a perfect cup of coffee with milk and sugar. His eyes so striking I lose myself to stolen moments gazing into them.

He elongates his already impossibly long neck exposing an area of vulnerability.

I smile with glee and my heart joyously skips a beat as I move my lips to his exposed neck.

I kiss.

and kiss.

and kiss. kiss. kiss.

kiss. kiss. kiss.

and kiss.

kisssssssssss.

Defeated by kisses he melts into my arms so I can cradle him against my body and remove the soft tiny hairs now covering my glossy lips. There’s no easy way to get dog hair out of sticky lip gloss.

He’s thinking, “There’s no easy way to get sticky lip gloss off my dog hair…”

Thank goodness this best friend of mine knows vulnerability, accepts my fragility and delights in letting me relieve the days’ stress on his tender little neck.

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