A TRUFFLE A DAY

This Truffle a day will not make you fat or make your face break out. She has chocolate chip eyes, red fawn hair, velvet ears, and will kiss your forever. We got her at 10-weeks old and she weighed all of two pounds. She looked just like a piece of chocolate candy to eat, and totally blew off the top of the cute meter.
We must watch out for that fast little tongue, which is inside that little French Bulldog body. She has no tail to wag, but can jump a foot high to let you know she is there. Each time I leave, she circles at the doorway with “pretty please” etched on that little expressive face. When I return she is joyful like no person I have ever seen. Her unconditional love is soothing to the psyche and the soul.
As I awake each morning, even if I didn’t sleep well and am still so tired, I start to smile anyway. I rush out to my four-legged companion and see she is sitting up, looking around, and ready to start her day. When I open her Truffle sized little house-crate, she extends her front legs and back legs as far as they can go and then shimmy’s forward to me. I pick her small self up, and the kissing begins. After she tires of that, we make a trip outside and then come back to my recliner, where I raise the footrest and she snuggles in between my legs for a well-deserved nap. (We have been up all of 15 minutes by then.) Oh, the life of a doggie.
I never knew that I could fall in love with dogs, but when it hit, it was fast and furious. I finally know what people have been talking and acting silly about. Trust me, I am one of the silliest. She is my sweet pumpkin, and I baby her unashamedly. I have missed so much by not starting a love ‘affair’ with our hairy companions earlier in life. I feel sad for that, but I also realize that perhaps Truffle came into my/our life at the perfect time. My heart may have been too fragile to fully experience the joy she brings.
Truffle cannot take away the sadness of Alex’s loss, but she surrounds that sorrow with lightness and delight. I am unable to stay in that place of gloom as I play with my puppy and let her kiss away the darkness.
This Truffle a day is better than an apple. She is love.