Diane And I went for a run this morning along the riveshore path. The path that the dogs have run with us for their entire lives.

It’s a narrow, Fern lined sand track it runs right along the Winooski river. It’s only wide enough for one runner… So in these times of Covid it requires one party to move off into the ferns to let the other one pass.. Today for some reason we ran into more neighbors then we usually do… And each stop to tell us how sorry they were about Satori. 

What neighbor said it was like the whole neighborhood had lost a friend… Well that choked me up… It also made me feel really good. I feel grateful to live in a community that it’s that close. By the end of the run I felt much better

Later today a funny/sad thing happened. Diane went by the vet and picked up Satori’s ashes.

(… A weird thing to type)

It was a bittersweet moment having our friend back home… The one crazy distance is that the bag that held her cremated remains had the label “final gift”

Final gift ?! Wtf ?

I had to laugh and then cry and then laugh again

Nite all, nite sam

-me