Right on Time — It’s All About the Timing

“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.”

― David G. Allen

“Timing,” as the old saying goes, “is everything.”

However, what I’m discovering is that trying to get the timing right is often beyond our control — and what sometimes seems like really lousy timing is, in retrospect, right on the mark.

When my dog, Sable, went blind 10 days before I moved from Calgary to Victoria in the spring of 2010, at first I thought it was horrible timing because not only was it extremely inconvenient to pack up one’s home while caring for an aging deaf and blind dog, it also meant that I would be taking her out of her familiar surroundings.

First would be the four day car trip with three different motels. Then we’d be living in a basement suite at a friend’s place in Victoria for six weeks, at which time they would be moving to a new home — without a rental suite. So then, after those six weeks, Sable, Soda (my other dog) and I would have to move again.

This meant that, upon arrival in Victoria, I would have six weeks to either find new digs to rent that would accept two German Shepherds and be suitable for a blind…