First, thank you all so much for your kind wishes and prayers on behalf of our dear dog, Guin - she’s doing much better, thank goodness. We’re taking her in for some further tests this week but meanwhile she’s resting comfortably and being positively lavished with affection and adoration. She has a clot in her lung, which was tending to make her woozy. She’s on various blood thinners and other meds that are controlling the wooziness and we’re just keeping her as quiet as we can in hopes that the clot will go away. Very brave, patient girl. Please keep the prayers and thoughts and wishes coming and I extend the same out to all of your beloved pets too.

Now, to “The Whistle,” by Eudora Welty.