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                  22 February 2020 
                 
                
                  Today I finished reading Ben Moon's heartfelt tale of his relationship
                  with his dog Denali. It made me miss Zinny and realize what a help
                  she would have been as I went through my own divorce, but also what
                  a consoling presence she has been to my dad as he recovers from
                  cancer. I still have a hard time with the fact that my parents
                  decided to keep her though after they helped watch her for a year.
                  Ben Moon went through both divorce and cancer with Denali and the
                  dog's friendship was a constant in his life that kept him going. I
                  long for the dirtbag life, as Ben calls it, living out of a van with
                  only a dog for a companion. Squeezing life down to it's most
                  important roots! I tend to acquire things and often can't see past
                  difficult choices that need to be made. Choices that can sometimes
                  be singularity beyond whose event horizon I cannot see. Ben is also
                  introspective in the book above his own falings.
                 
                 
                
                
                
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