Shorty was the kindest of the kind. He owned ‘Shorty’s Bar and Grill, Albuquerque, New Mexico‘. Mrs. Chicken and I used to go there after a movie when we were dating.

We learned that we have lost Shorty to a pack of wild dogs. We saw it as the computer camera started a per-scheduled Zoom call that automatically connected on at 7PM video chat each Thursday evening.

Imagine the surprise and shock when the chat screen comes on and the wild dogs are chomping and chewing Shorty. The crunching of bones and oozing of fluids looked like a tube of taco sauce being squeezed without opening it.

Words alone can not express the feeling of loss we feel. But if not words, what method can we use? Then we remembered how others expressed their loss and frustration. Like the Chicago teachers who turned their cathartic expression into dance.

Yeah, that’s it.  Interpretive dance!

 

The music is only playing in my head since this is just a remembrance that I am expressing by words. But can you feel the sense of loss and and despair?

My grief about the loss of Shorty is being shown to you with all the deep meaning that interpretive dance can bestow.

 

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