I Attracted a Tortoise

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Every once in awhile I hear a word used in a context that sets a little light off in my head. My wife's acupunturist who has become a friend over the years is probably our only new thought friend. I was talking to her yesterday while my wife sat impersonating a pin cushion, and she used the word attract in a context that I previously likely would have used the word manifest.

I had a similar experience years ago with the word intend. I'd read it in the Castaneda books a number of times, but I think it was a Deepak Chopra audio that sparked the aha moment for me and caused me to think deeply about the act of intention.

I haven't actively practiced LOA type stuff since long before law of attraction became the buzzword it is now, but I have manifested things in the past with incredible results.

Anyway, here's the the story...

About four months ago my wife acquired a tortoise for our grandkids. Someone who owed her some money had two and was trying to sell them. It wasn't likely that my wife was going to get paid, so she took one of the tortoises as partial payment. The tortoise had a runny nose, so we took it to the vet, found out that it was getting about zero nutrition from what it was being fed, so we educated ourselves on tortoise care and passed the information on to the lady who we got the tortoise from.

About a month later my wife discovered that the lady who still had the other tortoise hadn't changed it's diet, so my wife took that one in trade against the debt as well to prevent her from killing it.

We had the first tortoise at our house for awhile before the kids were ready to take it, and became somewhat attached to it. We decided that tortoises were pretty cool pets. When we gave them the second one, it was with the understanding that when the kids decided they no longer wanted two, or when they grew so big that caring for two became overwhelming (this variety gets BIG), we would take one of them.

I got swept up in the whole tortoise thing, and began looking for a large used aquarium to keep one in. I found one rather quickly, bought it, and put it in the garage. I suppose this is the point where you can say I truly intended to have a tortoise.

Fast forward a month or so after I bought the aquarium...

I was home alone one weekend, had fired up the grill, and was waiting for the coals to ash over. I heard our dog barking and looked out the slider into the back yard to see what she was barking at. She was in the near corner of the yard barking and scratching the ground at the base of the fence. I figured she had chased a garter snake or something to the fenceline, and it had escaped under the fence. I told her knock it off and returned to the kitchen to finish getting the meat ready to put on the grill.

After I went back outside, the dog was gone. I put the meat on the grill, grabbed a beer, and sat down in a lawn chair. As I began relaxing, I looked across the yard to my left, and saw the dog had something between her paws that she was gnawing on. It didn't look like one of her toys, so I walked over to see what it was.

It was a tortoise!

I snatched it away from the dog and inspected it. It must have been quick to retract into it's shell because it didn't appear that the dog had done any damage. After looking at the spot on the fenceline where I saw her barking earlier, it appeared that the tortoise may have been burrowing under the fence.

I live in western Washington state. Tortoises don't live in the wild here. An escaped or abandoned pet tortoise very likely wouldn't survive the wet weather for long. We live in a development of about 70 homes just past the edge of town. The closest home outside the development is probably at least half a mile. We were unable to find anyone in the development missing a tortoise. We have no idea where it came from. Wherever it came from, it is well cared for now.

Fast forward again to yesterday...

We were at the acupuncturist's house. My wife was getting her treatment and asked if we had told her about the tortoise. She said no, and I basically just told her that the dog found a tortoise in the yard, and I rescued the tortoise from the dog. She chuckled and said, "John attracted a tortoise."

I hadn't considered it in those terms. The synapses started firing and in that moment I came to truly understand the meaning of attraction.

John
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  • Profile picture of the author fushigi
    Thank you John ! I LOVE this story! It's such a great illustration of attracting what we think about! Also as an animal lover I want to say thank you for taking such good care of the tortoises! Wow it really warmed my heart
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