Hi, Bluebird!
Thank you for your response.
It's a few months since I started this topic, and I'm still learning!
Loving, caring, listening, sharing and being happy is an endless study, and incredibly rewarding.

My friend Charles Foster was a wonderful example. He lost a lot of abilities over the last 10 years of his life, but lived to be 95 without complaining, always focusing on what he enjoyed. When he went fully blind he went to museums with friends and loved hearing them tell him they felt about the paintings!

I'm still learning from Hazel. When she likes something: meeting someone, going for a walk, or just out back to pee, supper, treats, corn on the cob, a frozen carrot, doing tricks, snuggling, ear rubs...her happiness in uninhibited. She really releases into her joy with all her heart and no embarrassment! I'm getting better at that, and recently had two occasions of the greatest joy of my life, struck by the wonder of two "everyday" things that I really like.
Hey, I can enjoy them every day if I take a moment to notice!