No, the Titus butterfly is not some newly discovered species of exotic butterfly. It’s actually a little story about your standard orange and black monarch. And a dog. A very special dog. Those of you who are dog lovers and have had dogs as part of your family know that even though you love each and every one of them, there’s always that one special dog. In my world that would be Titus, the best dog ever. For those of you with extra special observational skills you might have noticed the tattoo on my right ankle says “Titus” with a paw print and a monarch butterfly. That print is Titus’s actual real paw print. I won’t go into the whole story, but suffice it to say he died at the young age of eight of kidney failure.
I cannot tell you how utterly heartbroken I was. I sat outside for hours sobbing and consuming a few adult beverages. When out of nowhere, a monarch butterfly showed up and fluttered all around my head. This in itself was strange because we don’t see too many of those in my neck of the woods. But then it landed on my hand. And just sat there, slowly flexing it’s wings up and down. After a minute or so it simply flew away. Since I’m not a Disney princess who often has birds and butterflies twittering around her, I knew that that butterfly was my boy coming to tell me he was okay and that he loved me. Ever since then, once a summer, a monarch comes and either flutters around me or my husband and usually lands on one of us. I always say, “I love you Titus!” when it happens and the butterfly goes on it’s way. Well, Sunday was Titus Butterfly day and I wanted to share the story with you guys. Some people might say that’s insane, but I don’t care. I know what I know. And that’s good enough for me.
Now on to lighter fare…Yes, I know. The speakers on the boom box aren’t exactly well placed. Or maybe they are, depending on what look you’re going for. I still love the tee though, the boom box just cracks me up because it’s weird and random. Saturday morning when I wore this, it was cool out so the jacket was needed. I love that it’s a moto jacket, but it’s also a sweatshirt…that’s a pretty cool two-fer if you ask me. I threw the sandals on just to show you that this outfit would work if you were going out for the evening just as well as it did with slip ons running to Lowe’s and then getting tires put on your car. How’s that for a little variety?
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