Dear Song Dog / by Sarah Ronald

An exchange between a human and an omnipresent coyote, using drawings and photography as the channel of communication. #dearsongdog

Dear Song Dog ⁠

When Jenna and I walk at night we pass under streetlights and through darker areas.
The dark spaces aren’t dark when your eyes adjust to them. ⁠

On these walks my thoughts meander from being present to thinking about you, and I think about life and death. ⁠

I think about the Buddhist concept of the bardo: another plane or space that one exists after one dies but before being reborn. I don’t know if I believe in reincarnation the way it sometimes gets presented, but from an energy expansion and contraction perspective I suppose there is something to it. ⁠

In the bardo one is groundless. The bardo is symbolic of the unknown and also the things we fear the most, but at the same time it is a sense of home beyond humanity. ⁠