Adventures of Djembe

Happy Kwanzaa everydoggy.

As all of you know Kwanzaa started on the 26th. I believe it’s day after the Non-African celebration of Christmas.

Being an African-American dog, for all my life I’ve been concentrating on things that are related to me, and my ancestors. Because we have such great history ( We started the human race, Coffee was discovered in Africa, Snoop Doggy Dogg is African etc.etc.) I’ve never needed to explore other things. But that all changed.

My dad is the coolest human in the world. He is always teaching me new cool stuff, and not just new tricks like “Hug”, but stuff that makes me think for myself and broaden my being. He’s got a way to explain things that everydoggy gets it.

Anyways, So, I was talking with my brother 7 about some rather good looking, gentlemen in very sharp looking red uniforms. You may recall my blog post titled: Santa is it real?

At the time I was telling 7, they didn’t look African, and that normally that means they’re not as important, but luck would have it my dad was there to challenge our beliefs. He explained the difference between being proud of your culture, and being ignorant.

He explained our beliefs are how we analyze the world, and if we only use our own beliefs exclusively, and not explore what others’ beliefs are without open mind we miss out in life. That’s like only using only my nose, and never using my eyes.

He then explained the story about those gentlemen in red uniforms, and how some dogs believe in Santa.

Everydoggy knows we Ridgebacks (and our brothers) are super adaptable, and upon receiving new information we immediately test it. So we decided to test this Santa theory….. There was only one variable we weren’t sure, and it was for Santa to work you had to be good all year long….. I knew I was good all year, but 7 got here in June, and the night we picked him up from the prison he pooped in dad’s hotel room. So we thought that may disqualified him.. err us.

WOW!

Amazing things happen when you simply open your mind be receptive to other beliefs.

I am happy to report Santa passed with flying colors. He is real, and he brought us a sister that matches our wishexactly. Here is her picture see for yourself.

I will tell you more about her later on. I have to go and poop now.

Posted on December 28th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Life