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You Have to Make Allowences for Water

You Have to Make Allowences for Water

Regardless of the events yet to happen, regardless of how much worse it gets before it gets better, we have to continue to flow.

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Anna Elisabeth Howard, CJN
Jul 13, 2024
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Sweat drips steadily down my face as I do what I always do when I come here: take the dogs and head straight for the river. I stare between the upright triangular ears of my boston terrier and the floppy but alert ears of my boxer as they lead me through the field like a mis-matched dog-sled team. The boxer is strolling and the boston is trotting and thus they match speed despite their vastly different leg lengths. They pause to sniff a particular clump of grass and I try in vain to keep the sweat out of my eyes. I don’t remember it ever being this humid in the mountains even in July.

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