“It was like a miracle, like a doorway to ‘before.’ For an hour, everything felt exactly the same. Exactly. I took her at 8 a.m., the time I usually take her, and we walked together down our beautiful block,” writes lisaxmiller
Photo: Natalie Allen/Getty Images/Cavan Images RF This morning I walked the dog. I didn’t sleep much last night and at 2 a.m. was on the couch texting with a friend about earthquakes and World War II and our sudden mutual alienation from our regular lives that seem, in retrospect, almost silly in their prettiness, but then 8 a.m. rolled around and the dog needed to go out. And now, having walked her, I understand a little bit better the reason for dogs.
The dog seems to understand that we saved her life, and her posture toward us is one of unqualified gratitude. She’s eager to please; she likes to hang out; she’s good with whatever, pretty much, as long as she gets her two squares a day and the chance to go outside.
The feeling of normalcy the dog walk gave me was so intense it was like a fantasy of an old routine. While in the park, I could pretend that what was happening in my apartment — the rearranging of furniture to make more work spaces, the teenager sleeping in on a weekday, the cooler of vegetables out on the fire escape — wasn’t happening.
Somehow the constraints that came with the dog stabilized us, and with that stability came something like happiness. Even before the current pandemic, when our lives together as a family were stressed and time-constrained by too many things — work, school, jiujitsu, spin, yoga, doctor appointments, play rehearsal — the dog gave the whole business of being a family a kind of superstructure, a framework upon which everything else hung.
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