In the morning, we gather to feed the chickens, brush the donkeys, check on the barn cats, let the dogs out. We clean the barn, and refill the water tanks for the sheep, and check on the waterer for the donkeys, and sweep out the chicken roost Lenore comes out, and Rose, and Maria leans down and the donkeys press their heads to her, and they talk in their way, unknown to me, unheard by me, but touching me.