An Ending. A Beginning.

Mew left today. Headed to Washington for new adventures. We hugged the dickens out of him and watched with teary eyes as the brown caddie made the same left turn it had made for a couple of years now going back to Fort Collins; this time the turn would take Mew far away from us. Away from the lazy weekends we'd spend talking, laughing, or just reading together on the couch; the simple enjoyment of his thoughtful company. The day before, Sonic came down for dinner and slipped Mew an envelope, in secret, to open on the road. It had a note and money for his brother; money that was probably Sonic's groceries for a week. Bright-eyes and I barely made it back into the house before we were in each other's arms with tears of sadness, joy and confusion; unexpected, welling up from someplace deep. A place I feel blessed to have touched in this lifetime. So proud of these charges, so inadequate to my task. How simple and superficial the ways of the mind and how fathomless and complex those of the heart.