tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post434426639802723147..comments2024-03-27T15:44:43.564-08:00Comments on What Do I Know?: In the Shadows of Lives LivedStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-64749374651036618492010-06-06T23:37:07.240-08:002010-06-06T23:37:07.240-08:00My dad had a working dog named Chewey who loved hi...My dad had a working dog named Chewey who loved his job as the ranch dog-- he doed six months after my dad of the same cancer. He really did work, helping with the horses, chasing habaneros, keeping the little dogs out of trouble and keeping ME out of trouble when I decided to investigate a rustling noise near the saddles. (In Sonora-- it was most likely a rattle snake. I was clueless. Chewy knocked me to the ground and growled and slobbered on me.) Chewey went with my dad even to the doctor-- he wasn't trained like Lynn's Mary, but everyone assumed he was my dad's helper and no one questioned his presence. Working dogs like that are special-- I think their owners and their souls connect like happily married people's souls. <br /><br />Thank you for introducing us to these people you have talked about. You show us what matters and what people leave behind when they go. Lisa & Yakov were special people for certain-- I cannot picture going from having doctor status in Russia and changing countries later in life and not speaking the language. But the had each other.<br /><br />What makes that picture of your aunt Bert with your wife and uncle so perfect? I keep looking at it and the groupings are perfect. Is it "golden" in some way?<br /><br />Wooden got an extra squeeze out of living and lived fully for his 99. I read a term this week where a fiction character grouped people into two classes: civilians and not civlians. Civilians were people who didn't engage in the battle of life. Wooden was a 4-star general. You were in the right place at the right time to see him.<br /><br />And the three people who were murdered. What can one say? I often wonder about them, their families, the tragedies that they saw. What made them keep going when their lives as we know them were one terrible situation after the other? Do keep us posted and I will say a prayer for them and their families.Anonymous Personnoreply@blogger.com