We scattered most of Rose’s ashes up in the pasture, kept some for this beautiful urn that Maria bought for me in Brooklyn last week. A good place for Rose. Maria says she kept the pawprint cast that came from the animal crematorium and wants to plant it in a garden next Spring. I didn’t know.

I’m glad to have some of Rose’s ashes and will keep them by my desk, where I write. I will get a lot of work done, I can promise that.