A time when the Universe conspired to help me notice little choices that open me to the vast beauty within life. 
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About The Book
In this lifetime change is required, improvement is optional. TzunTzun
It seemed simply a challenging yet doable task, earn a stray dog’s trust, rescue the dog, and foster the dog while the rescue found a home for it.  It became a six month journey of discovery with many, many lesson of how beauty is ever present if I but open and allow myself to notice.   Part way through the journey I was instructed that writing this book was to be part of the journey.  It is my intent that readers gain more understanding of the many little choices  that will bring beauty into their lives.  It is as simple as allowing yourself to notice.  
About The Author

Malcolm Pullen

All of my life I have enjoyed expanding my perceptions, my understandings.  My life plan never included writing a book.  A Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and the Fates placed me in a career working with computer systems at the 9-1-1 Center.  In my 40s divorce, beginning to do animal rescue, and studies with a Tibetan trained mystic opened many new experiences in my life, experiences that expanded my understanding of myself and of life.  
It began with a friend mentioning a stray dog that no-one was able to approach.  Attempts to skirt involvement failed and I found myself slowly earning the stray’s trust by visiting her and feeding her each day.  What seemed a simple task became a six month spiritual journey, rich, complex, rewarding, life changing.  
Book Review
Bringing In Beauty
by Malcolm Pullen
Balboa Press

 

“Suddenly, everything is different. Beauty is not a stray dog, I am her person and she is my dog.”

Over the course of about six months, a man bonds with a stray dog, winning her trust slowly—inch by inch and day by day. The author is a committed animal lover who has fostered a number of pets. He is told of a stray canine that has taken up temporary residence near a local business. Though he has made plans to travel, Pullen makes a month-long commitment to feed and water this dog. She keeps herself so aloof that it takes him several months just to determine that she is a she, but early on he begins to see the “beauty” that becomes her name. Pullen details every visit, describing how close he is able to get to her, how she eats, and how clever she is at dodging his well-planned advances. More months pass, and he is still irresistibly involved with Beauty. She begins to take food from his hand, allows herself to be petted, and finally accepts a leash. Beauty now lives with him in a mutually enjoyable, trusting pet/owner relationship.

Pullen’s book can be read on several levels. There is the obvious interaction with Beauty and the sensations he experiences as he welcomes “beauty” into his life. On his commute to and from Beauty’s lair, he often reflects deeply on aspects of his life both current and past as the contact with the coquettish canine touches his mind and heart. Pullen’s writing style is both intelligent and amusing. By the closing pages of the story, the reader will be cheering for him as he convinces this shy, almost feral canine to trust him and give him her devotion. Animal lovers will be enthralled by this touching tale of one man ‘s gentle conquest of a loveable but elusive canine.

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