Feb 2, 2015 Awake in Real Time: Coffee-induced Meditations and Journal Entries

Snow-Dog Wolf

©February 2nd, 2015

By Vijaya Sundaram

Snow brings out the atavistic wolf in my dog. She was nuts today, leaping like a wild thing in piles of pillowy snow in the backyard.
After such forays into weather-related delights, we return to the warmth of the house, where she submits to a minute examination of her footpads, between which large and small ice-marbles form. How quickly they form, and how they must hurt! I use a very warm cloth to wipe her frozen feet, and then, we play like two children, with her leaping from cushioned bench to chair opposite and back again, and me tempting her with annoying squeaky toys. Confession: I LOVE annoying squeaky toys — much in the same way I used to love swinging on a rusty gate when I was growing up. Sound is God. Sound is Dog.
I guess I’m compensating for never having had a dog in my life until almost a year ago. (Holly will have been with us for a year on February 17th.)
She has transformed all of us.

~Dreamer of Dreams

Tags: Chronicles of Holly, Dog Dreams, Snow-Dog