The Power of Connection (aka The Moxie Adventure)

We grow up, we move, we buy houses and dogs we get jobs and yet somehow we are all still never that far away from those people we knew when we were kids....new connections lead to an old friend and sometimes and old connection helps us out when we least expect it.

Yesterday I was early to a meeting so while checking Facebook mobile I noticed a post from one of my closest friends that his German Sheppard, Moxie, has been lost since the early AM hours. So I send a text to see how they (him and his wife) were doing. Since I no longer live in the same town I can only offer moral support, and I figured they (as typical "animal parents") were freaking out.

They had already been searching for several hours and were pretty worried at this point. In fact they had started canvasing with fliers and posting wherever people would let them. Facebook posts, fliers, driving around the neighborhood....I could almost feel the strain and yet I can't imagine the worry. Losing something you love is painful.

So running low on fliers my friends wife posts one lone flier on one side of a gas station pump (stay with me, here is the fun part)...a woman running low on gas happens to use that ONE pump an hour or so later....it just HAPPENS to be an old grade school classmate of my friend...it just HAPPENS that she had seen a German Sheppard a few hours before....she recognizes my friends name and calls the number....Gives them a general area to look.

It just HAPPENS that this woman lives close to my friend (neither of them knew that), and now that they have an area to search in they have a new hope.....so the search continues... A group of men are working on a house there and HAPPEN to have seen the dog, another sighting....more hope and now as I am hearing the story I can almost taste the anticipation.

Whistling and walking my friend and his wife hit a dirt road with an open field and in what I can only imaging is a movie like reunion.....Moxie, the lost German Sheppard, comes racing out of the field to meet her grateful parents!

When we grow up we move, we get jobs and dogs and tend to forget those we left in our past, when you think that you may never see someone you went to grade school again and you dismiss them...remember Moxie. You really never know when or how your connections will come to your aid or when a simple phone call you make could help someone out in such a big way. You just never know what will HAPPEN!!