Put The Puppy Back On The Paper

White labrador puppy

Yep. Just put me back on the paper.

Could it be that your mind is not a wayward child to be shouted at and locked under the stairs. Maybe it’s just a puppy you need to train.

I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place of friendly detachment toward myself, so I can look out at the world and see all those other things with respect. Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don’t drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor’s yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper. So I keep trying gently to bring my mind back to what is really there to be seen, maybe to be seen and noted with a kind of reverence.

Annie Lamott

via Merlin

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