Hi Marc
I'm truly sorry to hear about your dog. Your post conveys the love you have
for him. It's true, a dog really is man's best friend. May he rest in peace
and his spirit roam free in doggy heaven.
Allan
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inconvenienced. (And threw a party for them afterwards for being really cool
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Disrupting the unnatural balance that you, as a conscious human being and a
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-Disturb the mind -
>From: "Marc Lawrence" <MLawrence@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [OM] Just a dog (OT)
>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:42:45 +1100
>
>
>I lost my dog, Monty, yesterday to complications arising from
>ultimately from nasal adenocarcinoma. Yes, I know this it OT,
>though I beg your patience (and understand if you'd prefer the
>DELETE key), as Monty, my dog, was also the being I photographed
>more than any other, with Maggie, my other dog, coming in
>second.
>
>Monty was a good dog, but....
>
>...he was also, in my one-eyed mind, the greatest dog that ever lived;
>a giant; a canine archetype crashing across my universe; a jester
>of galactic renown; a King of Kings; a mental gymnast and gymnastic
>mentalist bar none...but he was also, in the less hyperbolic parts of
>my brain, and in the part of me that understands and knows happiness,
>just exactly what everyone can be fortunate enough to have in
>their lives: a good dog.
>
>Someone called a past dog in their lives a "heart dog", and that
>we may have but one "heart-dog" - that archetype to which others,
>just as much loved, provide detail and decoration and finetuning
>and enhancement, all formed out of the "heart-dog"'s mould even
>while carving their own individual path through our mind's sky.
>Peter has never owned, or been owned by, a dog before and it goes
>without saying that Monty is his. For me, who has owned a dog before
>(Goldie, the family dog), there are some elements of guilt towards
>that former family pet, because I *know* to my core that Monty was
>and is my "heart-dog" too.
>
>He could glide with an inspiring grace across a field, head lifted
>high, highstepping the aire, straight into a tree (and then look
>astounded and offended that the tree did not have the intelligence
>nor good grace to move out of his way). He was the dog that bit other
>dogs, and yet would allow a strange Jack Russell Terrier to raise
>itself on its backlegs, front legs on Monty's shoulder, to sniff
>his face. He was embarrassed by hugs and yet desired to be directly
>under your feet at every unexpected opportunity. He was a hard
>dog to live with at times, especially while out in public amongst
>houndish strangers...and yet nothing rewarding is easy, and my
>struggles, arguments, placations, comforts and mind-melds with
>him showed me my good and my bad qualities, as I saw his reflected
>in mine, and for that I must be grateful, if not always having
>wanted to look into that reflection. He trusted me - that is hard
>for me to be grateful for, for I rarely felt I deserved that trust
>- and that was nectar even when undeserved. He was never anything
>I expected, but was always something that I never knew I needed.
>
>He was clown, fool, lord, knight, fighter, mad eejit, sharp, blunt,
>roar, laughter, howl, slapstick, melodrama, earthy, pungent, claw,
>tooth, clench, buffoon, siege, rescue, child, wise, wiseguy, roar,
>gentle, giant, saved, salve, heart, sole, bonded, found, clever,
>stellar, galumphing, gravitas, embrace, brazier, burning, warming,
>flaming, shining, crazy, diamond...
>
>...friend.
>
>...and I miss him, and now, away from his heat; having touched
>my forehead to his so-cold forehead, trying to meld with a mind no
>longer there; shaped my palms about those familiar but so-
>very-cold curves of his anvilled skull, suede ears, and
>sweepingly strong but still flank; as he lay on the stainless
>steel bench, and I covered his now-doused eyes with a hospital
>blanket...I feel crumpled to dust.
>
>Shine on, Monty.
>
>To at least give you all something photographic, here is a very
>small sample of photos - three of Monty, three of Maggie, and one
>of them both "unposing" for the camera (all of which my heavily
>compartmentalised and bottled-up mind is happy to take any
>criticism for):
>
>http://www.parknmeter.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=11
>
>Good boy, Monts! Good boy!
>
>Cheers,
>Marc
>Sydney, Oz
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