The scene outside my window where I’m writing this. 

They visit every morning on their walk from the cemetery to the woods. 

It’s 10 degrees outside.

They’re hungry. 

But they’re not alone.

They stay together.

They’re giving each other baths right now.

It’s just the loveliest thing.

How they know to take care of each other. 

Sometimes I think they visit just to remind us how to be human.

Always makes me think of Joni Mitchell singing, “I want to shampoo you.”

Just right after, “All I really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and you too.” 

From the view outside my window, it doesn’t seem like too much to ask for in this world.