Dear Valentino Followers,
What could be more worthwhile, after a year of being, at times, completely shut down and closed off from one another, than to open up to one another as we never have before?
A lot of members of our society have been closed off long before the Covid pandemic. Cut off from people they may have been close to and loved because they opened their hearts and got hurt or from some other misunderstanding or misjudgment. People closed off because the rest of us were too quick to pass each other by and miss the chance to see the light that resides in each and every one of us.
That which I find myself most thinking about at this Christmas/New Year season are my relationships…past, present and those I envision for the future, as I am in a continuous state of growth. There is something each and every one of us share. Injury. We are all wounded and what really determines our outcome is how we process those wounds. When I think of all the Valentino followers, I feel connected to all of you in our humanness. I wonder what you all have been through in your lives to arrive where you are today. I wonder if you are happy or suffering. You are in my heart. We are connected by something phenomenal that happened to me and inspired me to connect with all of you. I cannot say how very, very grateful I am that you understand the mission and want to participate. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Valentino The Love Bunny is about PURPOSE, but most importantly, he is about LOVE, the healing power of LOVE, the infectious HOPE that comes with LOVE, the inspiring OPTIMISM that springs from LOVE. Valentino is a wellspring of this most important element, as essential to our existence as water and air. This does not mean he does not see and feel the endless suffering, but he does know that our existence is all about ENERGY, and if every person could conduct the positive energy of LOVE in their daily lives, WE will become better, our species, man, will become better and the world will look and feel better.
What Valentino hopes for in Two Thousand Twenty One is that we will listen with our hearts, not our egos. That we will try not to personalize hurtful words that are spoken, but not necessarily aimed at us, that we will take that one step back before reacting, that we will believe that the people who say they love us really do love us, that we can let ourselves trust enough to allow our hearts to open wide to one another and FEEL! Let 2021 be the year we unite to stop the counterproductive cycles we have all been mired in at some time in our lives. Let’s move the needle. Let us feel each other’s pain and comfort one another. Let us hold each other up and lift each other higher, and let us SPREAD LOVE EVERYWHERE WE GO!!
Good-bye 2021 and don’t let the door hit you on the way out!
Cheers to good health, physical AND mental! STAY HEALTHY EVERYONE!
All our love,
The Animal Lady and Valentino The Love Bunny
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