My dog Red is a wonderful dog. I believe in spirit dogs – they come for a reason, and leave when they are ready. They enter your life and mark the passages of time. They open me to new experience. They walk with me on the hero journey. Red has been with me less than a year, but he has entered my life fully and completely. His purpose for coming here has not yet  been revealed to me. Orson brought me to Bedlam Farm, Rose helped me to live there, Izzy brought me to hospice work on the edge of life. Red is fully present, but his purpose here is not yet clear to me. I eagerly await for it to be revealed.