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Dan Riedinger's avatar

My condolences on Mickey’s passing. You’re right, dogs teach us how to be better humans. I just adopted a shelter dog named Darcy, who’s already begun rewiring my brain to live in the moment and appreciate the here and now.

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Andy @Revkin's avatar

You may appreciate this 2012 New York Times Dot Earth post on an earlier dog's passing. The Animals That Make Us Human

https://archive.nytimes.com/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/the-animals-that-make-us-human/

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Dan Riedinger's avatar

Thanks for sharing this, Andy. Very touching. Being a “dog person” means so much more than simply liking dogs. It means opening your heart to something much bigger than yourself.

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