“Brah! Braah! Wah! Whaa!, A’rau-ow!”
“Thank, God,” the unsettling, early morning silence had been broken by a wonderful flock of Canadian geese flying overhead.
The sound of the geese was the first I had heard upon arising from my usual 5 a.m., except for the harsh ringing in my ears that had awakened me in a near panic earlier, at 2:34 a.m., when I thought an alarm was going off in the house.
The dog was also calling me to let him out of his cage and into our warm bed.