I had this dream last night, very vivid, about my dog Kino. I've been making plans to send her from Reno to Ohio... It was a simple dream and short but one of those that seems real. She was on her back and I scrathced her tummy and she stretched her legs and then I grabbed her by the scruff which I always do and pretended to smash her head against the ground (which I always do), like when a cop wants to get information out of some perp he's just run down. Then I let go and roll on my back and Kino gets up and goes nuts (which she always does), smiling and running rilly rilly fast in small circles or maybe a figure eight around a tree over and over and then I chase her but she's alway TOO FAST. And the sun warms the earth. And the grasses are warmed by the earth and the sun and they grow tall by the banks of the river. And the smell of the earth and the cool and the blue blue sky. A bird. Three round rocks cool to the touch. And finally I lay down in the same grass now trampled by our play and Kino lies next to me. I pound on her ribs. "Good Dog"