Image by Roy Harryman from Pixabay
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, encourages the keeper to avoid dwelling on endings and to concentrate on beginnings, and so it was most welcome to see a public message welcoming Phyllis’s granddaughter Alexis to the Marshfield Fire Department.
Alexis has been building EMT experience with other agencies, and recently resumed her role as goalie on a women’s hockey team. She is an enthusiastic agent of life in its exciting beginnings, and the keeper and Phyllis are proud to welcome her and her father Todd for a visit, along with dogs Ava and Kai. Alexis’s sister Taylor, an enthusiastic “beginning” Madison resident, will be invited.
There will be a party, and the keeper, as usual will beg Phyllis’s indulgence to give a short speech, about beginnings—his, of course!
