Nov 17, 2023·edited Nov 17, 2023Liked by Matthew Moran
The is a really sweet, endearing warm piece. And I haven't even savored the photos yet.
I have recently had a fantasy. WHAT IF WE COULD HAVE A NEW FORM OF LIFE: A creature with the intelligence of Man and the warmth of A Dog.
Dogs are sweeter than people: For example, why does a dog bark when you leave him alone in an apt. and close the door. Someone said it is an expression of his feeling of rejection.
Imagine a creature with man's intelligence and a dog's capacity for affection.
When I was a child, my Mother's shrink advised her to get a dog. I think he oppined that it would make us warmer and thwart the development of misanthopic tendencies. We got turtles and salamanders instead.
I have to say that your experience, indeed the entire way you live, is very different, actually alien, to mine. For example, you say that when you met Beau, he licked Debbie's face. In our family we would be TERRIFIED of disease.
I don't want to sound too crazy, but the second stanza of this poem (I wrote this years ago) contemplates marrying a dog:
I know where you are coming from. We have said goodbye to a few dogs over the years. All from old age happily, but still sad. Our last dog is now getting old, losing her sight and hearing and while she occasionally forgets she is no longer a pup, sometimes her hind legs don't sync when she is jumping up stairs. She is around 14 happy years old. They are an important member of the family. My kids haven't know life without dogs. The memories last :)
What a wonderful dog and what a loving tribute! My phone is supposed to stay dry, but you almost ruined it 😒. May the pain of his absence be assuaged by your indelible memories.
You made me cry - you and your damn dog story. I feel for you all - they are the best of friends and a terrible loss when they go. Loved the story of how he came to you - couldn't bear to read how he left you as i was already crying my eyes out.
This piece is excellent, poignant, sensitive, compassionate, and endearing.
Sometimes I think that people who are not able to express love for other people direct their mangled affections onto animals. But that is not your problem at all; you are able to express emotion
Dogs elicit more love and feelings among people than any other animal. For example, I am often an ornery son of a birch, but a dog can make me melt into maudlin mushiness.
I once Fantasized about a new kind of being: A BEING WITH THE INTELLECT OF A HUMAN AND THE ENDURING EPIC LOYALTY OF A DOG. That would be a gallant and glorious creature.
OF course, not all humans feel the same way. In.china, they.eat dogs.
Some anthropologists have said that ancient Hebrews loved pigs the way we love dogs. They note that a pigs face resembles a humans face and surmise that to the ancient Israelites eating pork almost resembled cannibalism. Israel has many, many porcine bones, suggestive of a strong bond between pigs and the ancient hebrews
The is a really sweet, endearing warm piece. And I haven't even savored the photos yet.
I have recently had a fantasy. WHAT IF WE COULD HAVE A NEW FORM OF LIFE: A creature with the intelligence of Man and the warmth of A Dog.
Dogs are sweeter than people: For example, why does a dog bark when you leave him alone in an apt. and close the door. Someone said it is an expression of his feeling of rejection.
Imagine a creature with man's intelligence and a dog's capacity for affection.
When I was a child, my Mother's shrink advised her to get a dog. I think he oppined that it would make us warmer and thwart the development of misanthopic tendencies. We got turtles and salamanders instead.
I have to say that your experience, indeed the entire way you live, is very different, actually alien, to mine. For example, you say that when you met Beau, he licked Debbie's face. In our family we would be TERRIFIED of disease.
I don't want to sound too crazy, but the second stanza of this poem (I wrote this years ago) contemplates marrying a dog:
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ON MARRYING INHUMAN THINGS
..
I want to marry a slice of cake
The sugared frosting yields the sweetest kiss
The fluffy texture the softest caress
The simplest form of connubial bliss
..
I want to marry a barking dog
Who pants in earnest with passion pure
Whose loving limbs run to me
Of his love I am so sure
..
I want to marry a ravishing rose
Her rapturous aromas beckon me
Make a human’s pheromone’s
An ugly, sweaty entity
..
I want to marry a common orange
Shapelier than any woman’s hips
Whose sectored, splendored succulence
Offers unceasing, tingling fillips
..
I want to marry the shining sea
Whose crashing waters drown all foes
Whose pledges last an eternity
Which reflects my rage with hard bellows
Trying to hold back tears right now. Mathew!! You are an amazing writer sir! Thank you!!
I know where you are coming from. We have said goodbye to a few dogs over the years. All from old age happily, but still sad. Our last dog is now getting old, losing her sight and hearing and while she occasionally forgets she is no longer a pup, sometimes her hind legs don't sync when she is jumping up stairs. She is around 14 happy years old. They are an important member of the family. My kids haven't know life without dogs. The memories last :)
What a wonderful dog and what a loving tribute! My phone is supposed to stay dry, but you almost ruined it 😒. May the pain of his absence be assuaged by your indelible memories.
In sympathy,
George
You made me cry - you and your damn dog story. I feel for you all - they are the best of friends and a terrible loss when they go. Loved the story of how he came to you - couldn't bear to read how he left you as i was already crying my eyes out.
This piece is excellent, poignant, sensitive, compassionate, and endearing.
Sometimes I think that people who are not able to express love for other people direct their mangled affections onto animals. But that is not your problem at all; you are able to express emotion
Dogs elicit more love and feelings among people than any other animal. For example, I am often an ornery son of a birch, but a dog can make me melt into maudlin mushiness.
I once Fantasized about a new kind of being: A BEING WITH THE INTELLECT OF A HUMAN AND THE ENDURING EPIC LOYALTY OF A DOG. That would be a gallant and glorious creature.
OF course, not all humans feel the same way. In.china, they.eat dogs.
Some anthropologists have said that ancient Hebrews loved pigs the way we love dogs. They note that a pigs face resembles a humans face and surmise that to the ancient Israelites eating pork almost resembled cannibalism. Israel has many, many porcine bones, suggestive of a strong bond between pigs and the ancient hebrews
Beaux ❤️💔. You did right by him, from the moment you met him, and then all the way to the writing of this beautiful essay,
It sure does. I'm sorry for your loss, Matt. Beautiful story.
Sorry, the stanza on marrying a dog -- and everyrthing after the first stanza -- didn't up load