Kari

Daughter. Sister. Mom. Grandma. 5th gen Texan. God Bless Texas. God Bless America ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🦅 hometown #Lubbock. @TexasTech Red Raider.

[Kari @Cherokeegreenis]

@depressionlesss

[Kari @Cherokeegreenis]

@earthcurated

[Kari @Cherokeegreenis]

@Rainmaker1973 So proper 🤭

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

"She's been at our shelter since 2015. Eleven years.
Every person who met her said she was wonderful.
Every person walked past her kennel and chose a younger dog. She stopped coming to the front of her kennel a few years ago. Stopped performing. Made a quiet peace with being where she was."
Last Tuesday a veteran came in.
He said —
"I need a calm dog.
I'm still learning how to be still myself."
I showed him three dogs.
He was putting his jacket on to leave.
He stopped outside kennel seven.
Luna looked at him from her bed.
Didn't perform.
Didn't come to the tront.
Just looked at him the way she looks at people when she decides they're worth seeing.
He said —
"Can I sit with her?"
He sat on the concrete floor at her level.
Not the bench. The floor.
That was 11am.
At 3pm | looked in.
He was still there.
Her white muzzle was in his hand.
Their breathing had synchronized.
At 3:15 he came to the front desk and said —
"l'a like to take her home.
I think we need each other."
I excused myself to the back room and sat on an overturned bucket and cried for a long time.
He texted me yesterday -
"First time I've slept through the night in three years.
I think she was saving that for me." She was.
Eleven years of saving it.
For one Tuesday..
For him.
This story is dedicated to every senior dog still waiting for their Tuesday.
They're saving everything they have for the right person to walk through that door.

[Kari @Cherokeegreenis]

@catturd2

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

Little HERO alert!!

14-year-old Arizona boy saves grandmother with dementia lost in scorching 103-degree heat.

Royal Cothrun was out riding his bike in Gilbert when he spotted 75-year-old Teresa Morgan wandering along the road, clearly disoriented.

"She just looked like something was wrong, so I started talking to her," Royal said.

Teresa, recently diagnosed with dementia, had gone to the grocery store and wandered miles from home in the intense heat.

Royal gently helped her into the shade and patiently worked with her to remember her son's phone number.

"Maybe we can try to call him on my phone?" he asked on the video.

He called her son, who rushed over. The fire department arrived shortly after.

Teresa's son said, "It's incredible what he did. It's so fortunate that he ran across her... and he CARED enough to stay with her."

The fire captain noted the outcome "would have been much, much worse" without Royal's quick thinking.

Royal's mother said she was "Super proud, obviously. He was calm. He was compassionate." Helping people is simply who her son is.

The fire department and Air National Guard are honoring this young hero.

Stories like this prove the next generation is not lost when parents raise boys with real character.

This is the America we know and love.

Make him FAMOUS!

#HeroicKid #ArizonaStrong

[Kari @Cherokeegreenis]

@deancain 🥺😭

[Kari @Cherokeegreenis]

@depressionlesss Tortilla 🤭

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Your sibling when you tell them to stop pointing at you

[Original Spike1962 @Spike19621]

🥰🥰🥰😇😇😇

[Kari @Cherokeegreenis]

@Sassafrass_84 If the situation was reversed they’d be rioting because “the white kid” DIDN’T get Life in prison or the Death penalty. And NO 35 years is not enough. Austin will never come home. 🙏

[Kari @Cherokeegreenis]

@AmazingNature00 MOSQUITOES 😫

[Dallas Texas TV @DallasTexasTV]

Bank of America and FIFA to provide free World Cup tickets to veterans and first responders

[Texas Tech Softball @TexasTechSB]

CRASHING THE SEMIS ONCE AGAIN‼️

[NCAA Softball @NCAASoftball]

TEXAS TECH TO THE NATIONAL SEMIFINALS ‼️

#WCWS x 🎥 ESPN / @TexasTechSB

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

Be thankful! 🙏🏼

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

When you open 𝕏 to see what’s trending today..

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Brazil, it is tradition that the first piece of cake goes to the most important person in your life.

And then his little brother's reaction.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Baby elephant stuck upside-down and the elder elephant comes to the rescue