Today’s Thursday Thought quote struck me as a very simple truth.
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Beware those Doggy Eyebrows
Come on, now, dog-lovers. We all know that our furry friends manipulate us. Now science has proven it. It seems that dogs can move their eyebrows whenever they want to, making their eyes bigger and reaching into our hearts (really a hormonal reaction). In fact, they move their eyebrows more often when making eye contact with humans than they do when engaging in their all-time favorite activity–eating. They know it gets to us, and they have a deep need for eye contact with humans, a need that wolves, their relatives, don’t have.
Read about the study done by a team at University of Portsmouth’s Dog Cognition Centre, published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, titled The Science of Puppy Dog Eyes.
To Be InSIGHTful
I ask you to read this story in two ways–literal and symbolic. I think it speaks to the fact we miss a lot by spend so much of our time with closed eyes, figuratively. I believe in eyes wide open, to take in the beauty of our surroundings and the people in it. (Story is from https://www.livin3.com/5-motivational-and-inspiring-short-stories.)
A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train’s window shouted…
“Dad, look the trees are going behind!”
Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed…
Dad, look the clouds are running with us!”
The couple couldn’t resist and said to the old man…
“Why don’t you take your son to a good doctor?” The old man smiled and said…“I did and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his eyes today.”
Have a beautiful, inSIGHTful day!