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Alice Harlan's avatar

❤️♥️❤️ I love the look on Rusty’s face as you both relax into chaos and uncertainty. That is true wisdom 🧘‍♀️🧡

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Tor Freeman's avatar

🧘🏻💕😘xxx

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Soni Speight's avatar

I can so relate! Living with a furry captain of chaos myself. The amount of time I spend saying - “sorry he’s a rescue dog” 🤣

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Tor Freeman's avatar

I'm so heartened to hear this - I say those exact words about 17 times a day. Shall we make t-shirts??

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Ella Beech's avatar

I LOVE this Tor!! If only we could let go of the idea that we have ANY control over our lives at all. Rusty the Teacher has shown us the way! xxx

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Ella Beech's avatar

...and wise school friends, of course, politely reminding us. Oh wise Alice! x

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Tor Freeman's avatar

Wouldn't that be liberating!! Perhaps when we're 93 we'll finally get it!!! xxxx

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Hattie Crisell's avatar

Thank you for giving in to my impatient demands for more Rusty. ☺️ I’m so into this idea that we all have to learn how little control we have. Terrifying but also liberating!

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Tor Freeman's avatar

It's the Stoicism dude!!!

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Hannah Meltzer's avatar

I love this so much. I always say that when I got Babs I invited chaos into my controlled life and space, and learned a lot about love and sacrifice. Merci for sharing and woof to Rusty!

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Tor Freeman's avatar

That's lovely Hannah, and so true. Woof to Babs!

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Susanna Burton's avatar

So true, wise friend Alice. It was the same when I got my dog, the upside is his enthusiasm for everything can, sometimes, be inspiring. Love these Rusty musings.

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Tor Freeman's avatar

Thank you - and nice to hear you feel the same!

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Katie Clapham's avatar

I love this, Tor. My dog is extremely... unique, to the point where I've stopped trying to explain her to people, and I've had to shape my life around her in some ways, but I like to think that maybe I had room to do that and other potential-owners might not have, so perhaps I was her destiny??

I think you and these comics were Rusty's destiny. X

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