Welcome to the 'Good Dog Blog'

My name is Louie.
I write a daily inspirational email entitled "The Daily Good Dog."
That's me, over there, on the right. Want to check out the web site - click on my face.


The 'Good Dog Blog' is a direct reflection of my life, which has always been an open book. I like it that way - feels refreshing in a 'no where to hide, no lies to conceal' kind of way. I mention this because writing 'The Dog' involves a great deal of soul searching.

In creating 'The Dog,' as many have come to call it, I have many inspirations. The purpose of this blog is to share these 'inspirations' with you. I write what I need to hear, so it's fairly easy to see where my heads at. It's my intention to offer a little more personal insight into the dog's daily rantings.

Often, after putting out a dog, I hear from folks asking "What were you thinking?" I choose to think they were curiously asking for an explanation as opposed to tossing their judgments at me. I'm not real kean on unsolicited suggestions or personal judgments. They make me kind of grouchy.

Please feel free to comment. Be nice. I'm overly sensitive.

May 'The Dog' be with.

Louie Rochon

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Good Dog Quote of the Week

"A cure for depression
“… and therein lies the genius of my teacher, my mother’s mother, who fulfilled herself completely by always forgetting herself in the joy and the welfare of all those around her. That is the only real cure for depression. It is the prescription that could come from any authentic spiritual physician. If you dwell upon yourself and your own private satisfactions, the first disappointment will throw you into a depression.
If you can train yourself to think more and more of the needs of those around you, to work with people even if they are not always pleasant, you will be making yourself immune to depression, and you will be helping others to do the same.
Eknath Easwaran _ 'Your Life is Your Message'"

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1 comment:

Lisa said...

I have to agree and yet disagree with this one.

Sometimes it is a good way to avoid depression by concentrating on other people and their needs and wants. Sometimes we need to be taken out of ourselves and reminded there is a whole world out there waiting for us.

But sometimes we use these other people and things as shields which we get behind to hide from our depression. It can quickly get to the point where any time it looks like we may have to face the depression and look it in the eye, we hide behind everything and everybody else: "I have to cook dinner," "I have to help my son with his homework," and my favorite, "I can't have a meltdown right now! It's Christmas!"

Those things do help drag us to our feet and get us moving sometimes. But we can't ALWAYS use those shields. At some point we must drop all the barricades we've placed in front of ourselves and face ourselves and our depression head on. Otherwise, it will never go away. And our lives, overall, will never change.

But hopefully, our goal IS to change our lives. We want the depression to go away so we can enjoy these people and places and events to the full and NOT be depressed at the same time! Facing the bogeymonster in the mirror is scary, but so worth the effort!

May 27, 2009

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