I subscribe to Lensculture, an online photography and much much more magazine who always have inspirational artists and their work to share. But this recent post about photographer and artist Nancy LeVine really touched a chord with me, despite my being an abhorrer of the You-Tube-Funny-Dog (Not) email that occasional friends are prone to inflict but also  because I recently lost an old dog of my own and have seen what LeVine has seen.

'Senior Dogs Across America' is a wonderful and lucid look into the way both we and animals cope. The steadfastness of the various dog's gaze into LeVine's camera is entirely refreshing. We can so easily forget that others cope and thrive despite increasing years or infirmity when we are subsumed in our own private pain and fear. 

LeVine says 'I entered a world of grace where bodies that had once expressed their vibrancy were now on a more fragile path. I saw how the dog does it; how, without the human’s painful ability to project ahead and fear the inevitable, the dog simply wakes to each day as a new step in the journey.' 

Her referencing of the larger political changes taking place throughout the world also rang true with me.
These changes, for the worst in the most part, will have ramifications for everyone, so that a search for and a reaching out to indomitableness will become a certain required in the years to come.

We most assuredly are '... better than that' but our politicians most probably aren't.

I reckon there's a lot to be learned from senior dogs. Lovely images.