Have Dog, Will Travel

In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence. At the age of thirty-eight, Stephen Kuusisto—who has managed his whole life without one—gets his first guide dog, a beautiful yellow labrador named Corky. Theirs is a partnership of movement, mutual self-interest, and wanderlust. Walking with Corky in Manhattan for the first time, Steve discovers he's "living the chaos of joy—you're in love with your surroundings, loving a barefoot mind, wild to go anyplace." Have Dog, Will Travel is the inside story of how a person establishes trust with a dog, how a guide dog is trained. Corky absolutely transforms Steve's life and his way of being in the world. Profound and deeply moving, theirs is a spiritual journey, during which Steve discovers that joy with a guide dog is both a method and a state of... [...]Number of Words in Auth: 2 Formats : EPUB Number of Formats : 1 Has Cover : Yes Single Author : Stephen Kuusisto Original Source : Mirc New Files 03 23 Sorted Author by LN, FN: Kuusisto, Stephen Title Length : 021 Title Parm D : Have Dog, Will Travel Title Parm F : Have Dog, Will Travel Num of Aut : 1 Title Parm B : ( Record ID : 5534 Uncomma Author : Stephen Kuusisto Title Parm A : Have Dog, Will Travel