This is our new game

Larsen and I took our first steps toward steadying. Joe DeMarkis said that I should not approach this like Crime & Punishment where I'm forever correcting Larsen when he breaks. After all, he's had almost five years of joyful chase, and we are reining that in.

Instead, my goal is to enlist Larsen into a new game that we are now playing, and teach him how it works. In this new game, Larsen will feel some mental pressure as he learns, and so there have to be periodic releases - - controlled, but yet free finds of clip wings that get re-kindle the excitement of the chase.

I'll explain how the exercises work, and, hopefully, will have a photo or two to illustrate.