Closure .....

..... for Jim at Serotoninrain, with this post on the loss of his beloved Figalwicks ..... please keep Jim and Joy in your thoughts, and your prayers.

It's hard to put into words that special bond between humans and dogs - a bond that formed long before recorded history, when dogs became the first creatures to follow humans across the line between wildness and domesticity - and what we endure when that bond is broken. At times like this, I defer to George Graham Vest, who found the right words 137 years ago, in his "Eulogy to a Dog."