Phase Four: Step 23

Today's thought dimension was Awareness.

My chosen person was: Cathy, the pooch. (Yeah ok! She's not a person, but I thought it'd be good for me (in some strange way!)

I had to list 10 new things of which I became aware about the pooch:

1. her hearing is gone,
   
2. as well as her sense of smells
   
3. and her eye-sight.
   
4. She wags her tail a lot more since we got her a week ago.
   
5. Her spirits seemed to have lift up a little.
   
6. She's expended her walking circle in the lawn to a wider one, and she manages to stay within the limits, even if she's pushing it a bit, at times.
   
7. She still has her "character" (she gives you a look when told no - really funny to see!).
   
8. When she walks around outside, she doesn't make those noises as when she's inside.
   
9. Has a little more "spring" in her steps, and
   
10. she loves to face the wind and smell the air (even if it's Pierrefonds' stink at times!)

My chosen environment was: our front lawn, since I spend so much time there, waiting for the pooch to do her business.

I also had to list 10 new things of which I became aware of:

1. there's not much noises out there at 6:45 am,
   
2. whatever pieces of earth they pulled out (the lawn guys) for the aeration look a lot like Cathy's little poops
3. I love to hear the wind rustling through the leaves of a neighbour's tree
4. Cathy holds herself up on her front paws when doing her business...
5. people smile at me when they see the pooch
6. there's lots of birds chirping around here
7. we can really hear the noises from the boulevard from our place
8. there's new kinds of weeds in our grass, since the city doesn't allow chemicals anymore...
9. a neighbour is re-doing part of his driveway
10. we should probably water our lawn, some time soon...

I don't think the dog realised or reacted to my "enhanced" awareness, but it felt good to see that she's livelier than a week ago. This morning while I was still in bed, she would come around and get up on the side, so I started asking her what she wanted and she started barking (scared the daylight out of the cat!) and got all excited. That felt good.

In doing the second part of the task I can see that in acting this way (i.e. being more aware) I'll get to enjoy the moment more as well as the little things.