Here’s a poem that has stayed with me, Epiphany by S.E. Venart:
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Tag: dogs
This is going to make my dog mad …
I recently uploaded some photos to Google Photo Backup. One thing it does is automatically group images with similar content and then label them things like “Food” or “Flowers” or “Beaches.” There’s even a “Dogs” one, which features plenty of photos of my dog. And then today I discovered a new one, also featuring my dog. Here it is:
Images of various animals that have nothing to do with the election
Review: Go, Dog. Go!
Go, Dog. Go! by P.D. Eastman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
When I was a little kid, this book seemed to be more my older brothers’ speed. It was longer. It was more complex, and it had a sense of danger about it that I didn’t truly understand as a young reader. When I finally did read the book, I thought it was really cool. I felt like I accomplished something, and I couldn’t understand what had made me apprehensive about reading it in the first place.
A little bit about ZZ on his birthday
Anyway, ZZ died a few months shy of his 19th birthday, about six months after the photo of him was taken.
I’ve just been thinking about the little guy today and missing him.
