NOW PLAYING: CHICAGO, THAT TODDLIN' TOWN

Whoa! I don't think we're in Wisconsin anymore!!!! I'm gonna live on WHAT floor????? 23rd???? I hope I can hold it on the elevator. I'm just a little guy, ya know! Miles & miles of park right outside my front door. . . just waiting for my "puppy poops"! My new mom, Faith! Me with my new mom and dad, Faith & Bill The view of the Sears Tower is great . . . now let's talk lunch!!! Faith writes: Petey is at home with us now. He has settled in and won our hearts as well as our neighbors'. He is adorable, affectionate, feisty. We hope you aren't too disappointed to learn we have renamed him Merlin. Merlin was the father of our much-loved late Cairn, Arthur (who was named by our son when he was five - he's now in college). Thank you, Pam, for your care of him before he came to us. And thank you for what you sent along with him. You were right about him not liking his medicine. What did you hide the pill in? Arthur liked a bit of cheese around his. Merlin doesn't. He peed or pooped every time we took him out today; he's so well on his way to being trained. Thank you for that, too. We feel so fortunate to have been given a puppy to raise. And we thank all of you, Cairn Rescue USA, who have made it possible. I look forward to joining you in your work in the future.

Now that I'm home, bathed, settled and fed, All nicely tucked in my warm new bed. I'd like to open my baggage Lest I forget, There is so much to carry - So much to regret. Hmm . . . Yes there it is, right on the top - Let's unpack Loneliness, Heartache and Loss, And there by my leash hides Fear and Shame. As I look on these things I tried so hard to leave - I still have to unpack my baggage called Pain. I loved them, the others, the ones who left me, But I wasn't good enough - for they didn't want me. Will you add to my baggage? Will you help me unpack? Or will you just look at my things And take me right back? Do you have the time to help me unpack? To put away my baggage, To never re-pack? I pray that you do - I'm so tired you see, But I do come with baggage - Will you still want me? -- Evelyn Colbath

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