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Thank You Newton

2014-02-17 12.20.27Thank you Newton. Because this bag of food you donated with love to The Pongo Fund filled food bowls for three dogs living with their people in a forested area not far from downtown Portland. Three men and three dogs. Completely visible to each other. Yet seemingly invisible to the rest of the world that passed them by each day.

Men and dogs that are some of the finest people I could ever hope to meet. Kind, soft-spoken and respectful of each other and the ground which they called home. Carrying their struggles packed neatly in their packs, not willing to let them go but not willing to let those struggles define them either.

Men with grace. Men with many years of life still to live. Men that have learned lessons. Men that know they will learn more lessons still.

Yet these three men with their three dogs temporarily living under trees and stars on hard soil told me they felt blessed in more ways than I can ever describe in words.

And while they sojourned in this one place in time with the sunlight shining gently through the trees, they smiled. Feeling warmth inside and out, they smiled. With appreciation for what they felt was their own good fortune because so many others have it worse, they smiled. They smiled. They smiled. They smiled. And I smiled with them.

Men that smiled. And their dogs that smiled too. All smiling together. Thanking me for the bag of food that I brought to them when they needed it most. But it was them that deserved my thanks, because they made my own day better.

Thankful that someone told me the path to walk that led me to the path that led me to them. The path that led me to meet three great dogs and three kind men.

Three dogs now eating great food. With kibbles dancing in metal bowls while tails wagged. All thanks to a bag of food given with love by a doggie named Newton. Thank you Newton.

And this is why we Pongo.

Peace. Love. Kibble. thepongofund.org