Very touching Val, glad you bumped this back up. It gave me a chill to read, in a good way. It reminded me of an elderly lady that my grandma took care of for awhile, going to her house and helping her clean and such. I went with her one day and the lady had a collie that of course I fell immediately in love with. This was before I had gotten my first dog. Seeing that I loved the dog so much she started talking about her and then about how she had always had collies. She spoke about her past babies and took me out to her yard and showed me where they had been buried and their memorial markers with their names, and flowers by them.

I never forgot that and now I bet the lady (I don't remember her name) really enjoyed sharing all of that with me too. When I reach that age, I hope I'm living just like this poem describes too. I can't imagine being any more content.