I can’t participate in the afternoon chores but I can go out with Red and watch. Simon comes out to me each day, I kiss him on the nose, we commune, he presses his head next to me. I see he senses something different, I see him trying to help me heal, to soothe me. Tonight I will go out to the pasture, he and I will have a talk. He carefully sniffed around my heart, he went right to it.