✦ Echoes of old habits... - Collage & Edition in FotoJet, photos by @Tesmoforia ✦
🇺🇸 ~ Sometimes, I reminisce about routines from years ago, long before the pandemic, when our Dante was still alive and healthy, when he could still walk before his hip problem (Dante was our family pet for 14 years, a mixed breed that looked like a chocolate-colored Labrador).
Between 2017 and 2022, I used to take Dante for walks in the early hours of the morning, sometimes at midnight, sometimes between 1 and 2 a.m. Why? Because those hours were quiet and cool, and the ground wasn't hot from the sun, so we could go wherever he wanted without worrying about burning his paws.
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🇪🇸 ~ A veces, tengo reminiscencias de rutinas de hace años, de mucho antes de la pandemia, cuando nuestro Dante aún vivía y estaba saludable, cuando todavía caminada antes de su problema en la cadera (Dante fue nuestra mascota familiar por 14 años, un mestizo que parecía un labrador de color chocolate).Mas o menos entre 2017 y 2022, tenía la costumbre de salir a pasear con Dante de madrugada, a veces de media noche, a veces entre la 1 y 2 am, ¿por que?, esas horas eran tranquilas, frescas, el suelo no estaba caliente por el sol así que podíamos ir a donde el quisiera sin la preocupación de que se quemara sus patitas.
✦ Speaking of the present, I also have this feeling of urgency about waiting until midnight to devote some attention to a personal project, which I don't yet know how to explain or where I want to go with it, but I can't write or meditate on this project during the day. There are too many distractions and also feelings of guilt for not giving that time to the necessary and more immediate things of everyday life ✦
Of course, you could say it's negligent to go out at night to walk your dog, but the area where we lived allowed it, and well, Dante was quite intimidating. His bark was powerful, and he weighed over 66 pounds. He was our family and also our guardian.
Dante is no longer here; he's in heaven. But sometimes I find myself awake in the early hours of the morning and want to go out for a walk, just to stroll a little, or just go out into the garden to touch the earth with my bare feet, just for a few minutes before going back into the house to try to sleep. I still can't get used to not going on those walks anymore.
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Claro, podrías decir que es negligente salir de noche a pasear con tu perro pero la zona donde vivimos lo permitía y bueno, Dante era bastante intimidante, su ladrido era potente y llego a pesar más de 30 kilos, era nuestra familia y también nuestro guardián.Dante ya no esta aquí, esta en el cielo. Pero a veces me encuentro despierta de madrugada y quiero salir a caminar, a pasear un poco, o solo salir al jardín a tocar la tierra con los pies descalzos, solo unos minutos antes de entrar a la casa para intentar dormir. Todavía no me acostumbro a ya no hacer esos paseos.
✦ I don't have many photos of Dante as an adult; I'm desperately searching for them in old memories, but here you can see him as a puppy. He looked like a little bear ✦
Esta es mi participación para el Midnight Letters Prompt #19 de la comunidad Midnight Letters; ¡ya casi alcanzan su semana número 20 de esta iniciativa! Muchas felicitaciones 🌃 🎈 🎉
This is my contribution to Midnight Letters Prompt #19 from the Midnight Letters community. They are almost reaching their 20th week of this initiative! Congratulations 🌃 🎈 🎉
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