Lynn Toler Instagram – When I was doing Tae Kwon Do I remember Master Kim (who was not tall or big) telling me no matter the size of the person causing your problem if you train you always have a chance, but that chance will disappear if you don’t believe in it. Then I proceeded to get pummeled by the biggest woman I had ever seen. Afterwards he told me I fought her fight instead of my own. I had speed and flexibility on my side by I was too scared to get close enough so it would do me some good. I have felt outmatched a lot this year. Grief is a Rottweiler of an #emotion. Large, tenacious, domineering. Then there’s Fear, that bad boy is the Presa Canario of feelings. Anyway I fought them straight up for a while, but now I’m more strategic. Zora, my German Shepherd is helping. She’s a wonderful teacher. She gets alarmed by something once but after that she just settles. I don’t settle naturally. I startle and then start running. Half the time I don’t know what I’m running from. So I am training to do as does Zora. Settle. There is a whole pack of dogs I can’t tell you about circling the crib. … and not one of them is a poodle. But they don’t know, I’m calling on my inner #dachshund. I mean have you ever met one of those dogs that actually believes how small it is? The lesson? If you haven’t got what you need use what you’ve got in a way they don’t see coming. #dogs #cats Everything has a lesson for you.