Can I just say, I am so pleased with the new roads in town! Do you have any idea how hard it is to be a dog and constantly step in potholes? I want to thank everyone who helped make the roads in Middleburg so perfect for a dog like me. Every morning I wake up even more excited and anxious to walk around our beautiful town. It's amazing what new roads can do. Which makes me think about life. I know, kind of deep for a dog, but our lives can have potholes, loose gravel, faded lines and deteriorate from age, at least symbolically.

I hear Tom talk to his friends and family about creating new roads all the time. Last night I heard him on the phone with another human. He said you have been down that same road a million times. What is going to make you choose a new road? I think the person on the other end of the phone was sad and crying. Then, he said, sometimes the rougher the road the more healing is about to happen to you.

I personally have watched Tom take new roads, and not just the ones we walk on. He is trying to not eat meat, trying to do 50 sit-ups at night (Which he really only does 20), and he writes a list of things every morning having to do with things he doesn't want to feel bad about. He also has repainted the guest room (it needed it), and he is writing new music. All these things are new roads for my human, Tom to explore. I am happy I don't live with a human who just resigns to same-old, broken down roads.

I hope you appreciate the new roads in the town as I do. Think about some ways you can make the old roads you constantly travel on in your own life feel and seem new again.