Month: January 2024

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.” – Dumbledore

What does this quote from Dumbledore meant to you? To me it means that there is always happiness even if it’s not on the surface. Sometimes you just have to dig for it a little. And sometimes a little deeper. But no matter what there is joy and happiness all around even if you can’t see it right away. I personally love this quote from Dumbledore. It shows that sometimes you need to just flip a switch and you could find much more rather than digging around blindly. It’s much easier that way. Even if it’s hard at first. I think this quote also shows just how wise Dumbledore really is. I mean he is the head wizard in Harry Potter. It makes sense why though. I just think I can relate to this quote a lot because sometimes I also need to remember to turn on the light switch instead of digging around blindly. And I’m sure you can to. In fact I’m pretty sure every single person on this planet can relate. Because sometimes everybody needs a little reminder to go turn on the light switch.

My hero is my great aunt.

My hero is and always will be my great aunt. She is always there for me and always has been.

My great aunt named is Katrina. Even though she lives in Virginia we alaways call on the phone and she comes to visit during holidays. She has always stood by my side no matter what. No matter how far away she was. She also makes really good potato salad. Even though I always ask for her recipe she never gives it to me, she always says it’s her secret recipe and that she will give it to me when I’m older. But I’m not sure I believe that anymore because she’s been saying that to me since I was child so who knows. And the best part about her is that she is always involved and Knowles what going on no matter what. She also always comes to family reunions and sometimes we even do little rode trips as a family and I can’t imagine one without her. She just always make them so fun and lively, oh and always knows the best games to play. Even when I was little she would play hide and seek with me and my brother. And even when she found us she would pretend she didn’t so it made me and my brother think we were really good at hide and seek. Even though we weren’t and we would hide in plain sight.

And that is why my great Aunt Katrina is my hero.

Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin

Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin is an educational book about animals such as dogs, cats, horses, cows, pigs, chickens and poultry, wild life, and zoos. Although I have to say my top three favorite sections were dogs, cats, and cows. My very favorite one to learn about was dogs because history of dogs and their behaviors are very interesting to me. Partly because I have two dogs at home and I want to learn more about the species. I loved learning about how much dogs are still related to wolves and how many similar behaviors they have to humans. Did you know that dogs are so tuned in with humans that a dog is more happy when you are happy. And wolves live the way most people do. Wolves in the wild do not live in wolf packs and they do not necessarily have an alpha male who would fight other wolves to maintainer and keep dominance. Instead they live in families with a mom, a dad, and children.and the most interesting part to me is that wolves can sometime take in/ adopt another wolf who is not in the pack and treat it like a child. Just like when a human adopts a child. And sometimes even a relative or grandma/ grandpa wolf can live with the wolf family. Personally I think that is shocking to know that a wolf can be so much like a human and that dogs come from wolves who live like that. And the dog breed that is most related to wolves is actually a Siberian husky. Siberian husky’s have 15/15 traits of a wolf. Yet are still considered a dog when actually they are basically a wolf. And lots of people want dogs because they are cute and cuddly but the truth is not everyone can have a dog. Let alone more than 1. This is because dogs need daily care and activity’s. Such as physical and mental training. This is called a dogs SEEKING system. It is very healthy to help activate this system in your dog and you could do this very easily by teaching your dogs new tricks and going on long walks. (at least one hour per day). And if you are gone a lot during the day such as at work or school consider getting another dog so your dog will not be lonely all day.

This is just some of the information I find most interesting on dogs and wolves and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Instead of a New Year’s resolution to follow I will be choosing a word to focus on.

My word for 2024 happy. I chose happy because no matter what happens you always need to be happy. And look on the bright side of life no matter what, even if the bright side of life is small and the bad part that you are contentiously worrying about is big focus on the bright side and slowly try to fix the bad and take it easy.

My second reason is in order to be happy you need to be a better person. So the better person you are and how much of a hard worker you are can also depend on hippiness. So if you do something good for other people and can make them happy and you fulfilled and happy. Which is a bonus for me.

And my third reason why I chose the word happy is because you can’t alaways be down about your life because someone out in the world alaways has it worse. So always be grateful and carry yourself with grace. And a guarantee if you are a better version of yourself everyday you will be always be happy.