Millennia have eroded the once great giants of prehistory into watered down effigies of what their ancestors once were.
\nWhile time transformed the lands, the climates, and the creatures into museum pieces, we have pulled one another through.
\nThrough the murky uncertainty that both is and is not, our shared experience called life
\nWe have grown together, evolved together, survived together.
\nA symbiotic expression; an oxytocin-addiction; a man and his best-friend
\nWe trust them with our homes, our property, our lives, our children\u2019s lives
\nWe raise them, feed them, teach them, befriend them, and love them.
\nWe communicate across a gap greater than mere language, but a gap between species
\nEffectively relaying messages in ways we aren\u2019t even mindful of,
\nThrough means we are only just now beginning to break the surface of
\nWhen they look at you with their big eyes and you see through the thousands of years that have braided us to our best friends
\nYou know that they too are looking through the foggy glass of the ages since the day, that they met their best friend, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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