Hello, and welcome to the new and (hopefully) improved Care Package. I’ve been putting together Care Packages on an almost daily basis since March 1, 2019, but over the past few weeks, I’ve lost steam for a variety of reasons. Today, I begin a new approach to the Care Package, and I hope it gets …
Tag: dogs
Sally’s Gone …
It’s taken me a few weeks to get my head together enough to write this, and part of me wants to put it off a while longer. It needs to be done, though, if for no other reason than to stop some of these thoughts from rattling around in my noggin. Two years ago today, …
Care Package for Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020
Meet Ziti. My family adopted her this week, and today’s Care Package is a celebration of our amazing new good girl. Poetry: Waiting for Happiness by Nomi StoneDog knows when friend will come homebecause each hour friend’s smell pales,air paring down the good smellRead more Song In My Head: Atomic Dog by George Clinton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyAEUWJlk1Q …
Care Package for Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020
For SallyYou were and still are such a good girl. Poetry: The Way We Said Goodbye by Mark VinzSo many years later, the old dogstill circles, head lowered, crippled byarthritis, nearly blind, incontinentRead more Song In My Head: My Dog And Me by John Hiatt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uzSpPfvZs8 Art: Susan Warner’s Sally Quote: “If there are no …
A TOUCH OF SILVER: Walking the Tic Tac
This afternoon my wife and I went for a walk up our street, onto a nearby dirt road, and off into a gently sloping field. We took our old Pekingese, Sally, with us. It was about 30 degrees colder than yesterday, but not so cold that the time outside was miserable. Just on the bare-handed …
