It must have been close to Christmas, but on which side, I don't quite remember. I suspect it was sometime in the January doldrums when all was frozen and gray. My friend Walter decided it was a good day for a dog. To get one, that is. "I know I'm me, because my little dog knows me," Walter once quoted Gertrude Stein. With his boyfriend Joseph away in the hospital, the house had an unaccustomed empty feeling. And it had been without a dog for too long. The shelter was in Ann Arbor . We piled festively into the car for the outing. It didn't take long to find her, a black and white ragamuffin puppy, so excited to see us that her tail seemed to wag her whole body. "This one?" I said, my inner ten year old going can we get her? Huh? Can we? Can we? On the way home in the car Walter chuckled, "I don't know whose eyes were more pleading - hers or yours." Walter named her Agatha, in honor of Miss Christie, the doyenne of our mi...
Joe,
ReplyDeleteGlad you started a blog. I am looking forward to reading more of your writing.Stay off the beach and at the keyboard.
Mike
Thanks for the good word, Mike. As for hanging out at the beach, and other questionable pursuits, well, I have to have something to write about.
ReplyDeleteGuess I have gone back as far as I can with you...lovely capture there!
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