Tranquility du Jour #375: Celebrating Mookie + Belle Starr
Tranquility du Jour
Kimberly Wilson
4.6 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2016
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Celebrating Mookie + Belle Starr with Tim Mooney. We talk Mookie's first year, the adoption of another pug, veterinary social work, and life at the moment.
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Tim Mooney serves as General Counsel and Director of Operations for Tranquil Space, Hip Tranquil Ventures and TranquiliT. He also serves as a board member of Tranquil Space Foundation.
Tim maintains a solo law practice focusing on a small number of nonprofit clients. He is also the founder of Nineball Media, an independent podcast and social media production outfit based in Washington, DC.
Tim has taught the laws of lobbying and campaign finance throughout the country. Tim also went to the microphone to share helpful hints on the popular Nonprofit Law Podcast, which was a fixture in the top 20 of iTunes' nonprofit podcast directory.
Most recently, Tim has discovered the joys of bike touring and has launched an online community devoted to bike touring lifestyle at Pedalshift. He was also one half of the 2013 book tour -slash- 11,000 mile North American RV adventure that was Tranquility Tour.
Tim received a B.S. from Syracuse University/SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry and a J.D. from Pace University School of Law. He splits time between the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC and his cabin retreat in Berkeley County, West Virginia with his multi-talented girlfriend Kimberly Wilson and their pugs, Mookie and Belle Starr.
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| 0:00.0 | Tranquility DeJure, July 25, 2016. |
| 0:09.4 | Hello there, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the 375th edition of Tranquility |
| 0:17.2 | DeJure. |
| 0:18.4 | Today's episode is a chat with my partner of 12 and a half years, the |
| 0:23.1 | lovely Tim Mooney, who loves to talk, by the way, and he will hear us chat all about the |
| 0:30.4 | lovely Mookie the rescue pug, who we just celebrated his one year Got Traversary, the adoption of our new pug, Bell Star. |
| 0:40.6 | You'll learn what does the name Bell Star mean? Where does that come from? And what's her history? |
| 0:46.5 | We also talk veterinary social work, which is a new program I'm starting this fall. |
| 0:52.4 | And really, overall life at the moment, having been on the road |
| 0:56.5 | pretty much the past three months in a row every weekend. And if we were here, we were here to, |
| 1:04.3 | at least for me, to attend an animal rights conference or to host the Tranquility Virtual |
| 1:10.1 | Retreat. So it's been a bit of a whirlwind the past few |
| 1:13.7 | months. And we talk about that and really what we've tried to do to stay grounded, why we |
| 1:20.6 | added this new addition to our family, how we recently went dress shopping for her, which was, |
| 1:26.2 | of course, my highlight. And there is a |
| 1:29.1 | photo of her new dress, which couldn't be more perfect for her in the show notes. And what's |
| 1:34.4 | funny is, as I was trying to talk to him into Bell Star, mid-June, we're en route out to host |
| 1:40.6 | yoga and the animals at the Burley Manor Animal Sanctuary. |
| 1:49.6 | And I'd been really kind of pushing her subtly for a few weeks, |
| 1:58.5 | and we had a discussion where he gave me all the reasons why it was not a good idea or time to adopt another pug. |
| 2:03.9 | And at that point, I let him know that I completely agreed on every single point intellectually, rationally, however emotionally, I really wanted her. And I was like, |
| 2:12.7 | I just want to be able to dress her up. Of course, there were many more reasons than that. But I was |
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