Mama love the Neiko - ALWAYS!

Daytime TV plagues my unemployment, even though I realize it's completely within my control not to watch it. And it was Fran Drescher on the Bonnie Hunt Show, of all people and all things, that inspired me in my little anniversary thoughts on Neiko.

They were talking about how painful it is to lose a pet, and how they question their own sanity when it comes time to bring another into their home and lives. Fran wondered why God made it so that our little companions' lives are so much shorter than ours. How can we keep doing this to ourselves, to continually have pets and endure the inevitable same. Over the passing of a dog she adored, she said that she realized she was never going to stop missing and loving him, and maybe that is one of the intended lessons: that there is supposed to be love after love. (Of course this translates to romantic relationships too.) So when it was time for her, she went out and got a  little puppy that "said nothing about yesterday and everything about today and tomorrow." That really spoke to me.

Who knew that behind one of the most famously abrasive voices in pop culture is a woman with such a spiritually evolved outlook that she would reach me with her thoughts on this topic? Certainly not me.

Since I can't justify spending the money on body art while I'm out of work, I'm designing a tattoo tribute to my Neiko. I'll get it done when the time is right.