Tiffani Sumner
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Chop
Every once in a while, a dog enters your life and changes everything. Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them and filling an emptiness we didn't even know we had. I walked into the auburn humane society on a cold day in January in search of my soulmate. I'm not sure what led me there as it was not a place, I planned on looking. As I walked in, I asked if they had any dogs available for adoption after tirelessly looking at other crowded shelters and being waitlisted behind the people in front of me who were already first in line for the dog. The woman replied," umm, we have two," and led me through the door. As I walked through, straight ahead of me, there he was. I just knew. He was loud and ferocious barking behind that small cage in a quite aggressive ferocious way. As if he was screaming let me out of here. He had been a stray and had been there six months. Unneutered large two-year-old German shepherd mix. This big, beautiful boy confined to a cage looking for his forever home. I have never seen a dog so excited to come out of a cage and into the world! I fell in love right then. His energy, his adventurous happy spirit, I wanted to take him home right then. Being a stray, he desperately needed a bath and smelled so bad it was almost unbearable. But what a beauty. Dandruff and all I said, I will take him. I returned three days later to pick him up since they had to neuter him first. It was the longest three days of my life. I named him Chop. From that day on Chop has been my best friend, my soulmate and my family.
By Tiffani Sumner4 years ago in Petlife
Before The Past
I read once that 'the wound is the place where the light enters you.' These were the words that brought me comfort after a breakup left my heart shattered into a million pieces. I thought of all the many avenues that were open and the light flooding in, molding those pieces back together. It was so vivid I could see it, and the best part of it was, I believed it. The light would be love that enters me everywhere. There would be plenty more opportunity for the light to enter as things got rapidly worse and more cracks evolving as I became more broken after repeatedly engaging in self-destructive ways and making choices that showed my lack of respect and value for myself. My fictional self was beginning to be too much and consuming as I quickly lost contact of my true authentic self.
By Tiffani Sumner4 years ago in Motivation
Country Strong
It's early Saturday morning and I am wide eyed and willingly rise at 6 a.m. Every Saturday morning my dad and I go into the town of Ruggs to meet at the Morrow County Grain Growers, whom he does all of his business with. My dad is a wheat rancher, and we live on a ranch of 6,000 acres in Heppner Oregon. I love driving into town with my dad, my hero that drives his combine tirelessly through those endless fields of grain. I jumped out from under the covers and out of my pajamas throwing on a pair of dirty jeans, a hand me down sweatshirt and of course a Morrow County Grain Growers hat (my dad was never without one). He was already waiting for me, in the old red and white pickup truck, the paint all faded from the long hours in the dust and sun.
By Tiffani Sumner5 years ago in Families
