Just before moving to the Netherlands these lovely humans had to say goodbye to their beloved Frenchie. It was a devastating blow (as all dog lovers know: we don't ever really recover from these kinds of losses.) They adjusted to expat life in a new country (which I can tell you is quite a thing having had to do this myself.) Edo joined them once they felt more settled. I absolutely love seeing the connection between humans and their animals.

"Waiting for happiness " by Nomi Stone is perfect for this session:

Dog knows when friend will come home
because each hour friend’s smell pales,
air paring down the good smell
with its little diamond. It means I miss you
O I miss you, how hard it is to wait
for my happiness, and how good when
it arrives. Here we are in our bodies,
ripe as avocados, softer, brightening
with latencies like a hot, blue core
of electricity: our ankles knotted to our
calves by a thread, womb sparking
with watermelon seeds we swallowed
as children, the heart again badly hurt, trying
and failing. But it is almost five says
the dog. It is almost five.