Transcend-Entalism: My Three Hour Hiking Trip

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After taking my dog for a three hour hiking trip that left us both excused, I returned home to paint the most time consuming and patience testing project I have ever done. Transcend-entalism is all about finding yourself and I may not have solved all of my numerous emotional issues, but I made a sudden realization about life. Well maybe not about life as a whole, but about my little mutt and myself. While I was walking around craving the comfort of my little screen that I left in the car, my dog, Ziva, could not have been more happy about what was going on around us. Her tail was wagging so fast I thought she was going to fly away when she saw another dog, her nose touched everything that it possible could, and her legs wanted to take her

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