Came home early to a quiet house and two pooches wagging their tails, well one was. The second pup, my Luke, meandered in a few minutes after his legs stiff from a long hard nap. Ready for another one if I was game. The momentum of moment spent, I was game.

These false summer days when the heat doesn’t know not to beat down so hard and the rush of thunder and lightening has yet to come are hard with so much uncertainty swirling in and out of our minds. The urge to close one’s eyes for a moment or two and drift off into nothingness, letting both mind and body rest, was too strong to resist, if any resistance had been offered.