After 20 plus years of walking dogs on the various Open Space and South Campus footpaths, and no longer having a faithful companion, I realized that I was not taking dogs on a walk, they were taking me, and just the other day, taking myself for a now more rare walk, I watched people interacting with their four-legged friends and saw just who was treating whom, and how much more in tune with life the dogs were than their purported guardians. “Come on, this is the way to be alive! Get off your butt and out of the house. Stretch your legs, catch the sights, breathe the open air.” Such happiness is a lesson for all of us. 

RP