Live with Shauna Rae - Day 12 of 100 Days

So I'm walking with our dog, who is the cutest, most excited.

If you have a dog, you know.

All you have to say is the word walk.

And they're excited.

So we went to our regular spot.

And I was coming down, you know, the path.

And I saw this beautiful monarch butterfly on a branch close to me.

And I held out my finger to see if it would get on it.

I didn't do it too close.

I'm going to say that I do have a fear of flying things.

And in particular birds.

Because when I was a kid, we were visiting family friends.

And they let their bird out of the cage.

And the bird immediately flew.

to the top of my head and began grooming me, running its beak through my hair.

And I totally freaked out.

I totally freaked out.

And ever since then, I was afraid.

Now, in subsequent years as an adult, I have held a parrot at the pet store, things like that.

So anyway, it was a big deal for me to stick out my finger to see if a monarch butterfly would sit on my finger.

It didn't.

And I said out loud, and I do that when I'm alone a lot, I said, it's okay.

It might have frightened me anyway.

And I felt...

the hand of my younger brother, Jason, who's actually passed away, I felt his hand on my shoulder saying, it's going to be okay.