As I was scrambling around the house before leaving, I looked down at my desk and saw a notebook. On the cover of the notebook reads, “Live the life you’ve imagined. ~Thoreau”. I use that notebook daily, but I was present that day, at that moment, and stood there soaking up the quote. I started to think what the life I imagined was. My mind flashed to a life with a dog – a stocky, blocky, brown pit bull (or Staffordshire Bull Terrier), who made me laugh, went for long walk