Sari pants after getting back from a walk by the Chattahoochee River on a hot summer day. She rolled over for one last belly rub before I started my trip back home to Portland.
To look into Ellie’s big brown eyes is to look into a better world, a world where we walk humbly, treat each other with kindness, love openly, forgive quickly, and eat everything in sight that isn’t a vegetable.
Ellie and I took a long walk on the morning of New Year’s Eve and stopped by the dragon at Irvington School on the way back. She rarely ventures that far anymore, though how much is from advancing age and how much from the warmer weather, I can’t say.