Farewell

Admired Miranda!
Indeed the top of admiration! worth
What's dearest to the world!*

The world will little note nor long remember Miranda, but she was the best pet I've ever had. For 10 years Sarah and I were fortunate to share our lives with the most gentle, beautiful, sensitive, loving, loyal animal imaginable. She was taken from us far too soon, a victim of kidney failure, on Monday, July 25.

If not overwhelmed by grief, I am at least very, very sad. And right now I wouldn't want it any other way. Tears are all I have left to give Miranda, and I'm going to make sure she gets plenty of them.

But you, O you,
So perfect and so peerless, are created
Of every creature's best!*

*The Tempest, III.i.