i think if i could live in one eternal moment, a single looping experience for ever and ever, it would be the day my dog Green Bean learned how to doggy paddle.
warm summer day, sunshine on my skin. chest deep in the cool, clear water of lake washington.
kasey and jay are in front of me, wading in the water. green bean is with them. he sees me out deeper in the water and begins to paddle over.
i kneel. he comes to me. he touches my face.
i could lay down in a hospital bed with tubes in and out of me, and they could just play that over and over and over again in my head and i'd be happy.