HeyJaredJohn Gaudiello
Essays on love, grief, and what my dog Obie taught me about both
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The Time Machine (opens the original)
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It’s funny. I have pictures of Obie all around my house. There’s even a pencil sketch portrait that we had done hanging on the wall of the living room. In fact, there are two in view right now while I type these words. I see these pictures every day. I think, though, that I’ve habituated to them so that I don’t always really see them. Of course they’re in my field of vision, but I almost gloss over them because I’m so used to seeing them.Tonight, for whatever reason, a small photo of him that I
Can She See Obie? (opens the original)
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One of my rescue pups that we adopted shortly after Obie’s passing is deaf.Tango was named after Elmo’s dog on Sesame Street, who she vaguely resembles. The irony is that Elmo’s dog loves music, even sporting a music note on her collar. I’d already come up with the idea to rename her Tango before the rescue told us about her deafness, so we decided to stick with the name, anyway.But lately, I’ve come to wonder if she has a sense that I don’t. Or even that her soul-sister Josie doesn’t.<a class="
Crying on the Couch (opens the original)
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I had a pretty emotional experience tonight, and I wanted to share it with everyone while it was still raw.Having lost Obie over a year ago, I have every now and then reached out to him in a form of prayer. I have felt that he’s heard or received them in some way. It’s more of a feeling than anything that can be proven, of course.I am also a lapsed Catholic, but I had an idea tonight that maybe I would go and visit the church to use it as a sacred space. When I arrived, however, it was locked ti
Who's a Smart Boy? (opens the original)
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“Who’s a good boy?”How many of us have asked our dogs this rhetorical question? They already know the answer, and so do we. But we ask the question anyway.That’s the fun in it.When I would ask Obie, he would grin and raise his head proudly, regally, even. Eventually, I just started telling him that he was The good boy (as opposed to merely a good boy), and he never disagreed. The Good Boy became one of his many nicknames, mainly because it suggested he was the physical embodiment, the ideal, of
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