What to do...

I have a very sad human here. My mom is not doing well at all. She cries a lot and frankly I am stumped as to what to do. I try very hard to be good and make her laugh and feel better. Sometimes it works but sometimes...well, a lot of the time it doesn't work. So I lay down and think a lot about things but often I fall asleep doing just that, thinking. I get up in her lap and try to make her feel better. Sometimes it works. I know that she pets my fur I think she feels better. Somehow doing that makes her feel as if her love has somewhere to go. I like it lot but I know she needs more than must a dog with great fur to pet. I look into her eyes and I see so much unhappiness. She keeps mumbling about not leaving me and that she simply does not know what to do.

I know she has friends but they don't come around much. She thinks that they are getting tired of her being sad so much. If that's the truth, they aren't being very good friends. She needs lots of encouragement to get out of the house. Yeah she spends a lot of time at home with me. And when she feels a little better she takes me for a walk. I get distracted and that sort of bugs her but she's pretty good about things. Sometimes she carries me home because we have been going so fast I get tired and want to just sit down a minute. But she gets a little impatient, though she never hurts me, and she will pick me up, hold me to her should and carry me home.

I just have a view of the world receding instead of progressing...makes for interesting dreams.

When we are out front in the outdoor room, I get to scamper wherever I want, but she just sits on the wooden bench under the Japanese maple trees and stares at her flower bed under the Leyland cypress. Sometimes she holds her head in her hands for a long time. So long, that I have to come over and make sure she's ok. She usually is if she hasn't been crying...

So if you are in the neighborhood and stop by to see her, tell it it will be ok, and that she is cared about...maybe invite her to dinner or out for soda. Maybe take her to a movie SHE would like to see. It could help, 'cause I get worried. I don't want anything to happen to my mom.

Hopefully,

Dragon