An understanding

All that happened was that I sat with my coffee sharing many glances with a beautiful brown and white long-haired retriever whose owners were unaware of the secret communication between the species proceeding by their side. The dog looked at me. I looked back, blinked in a rather exaggerated manner and tilted my head. The dog immediately blinked back and tilted its head in the same direction. I nodded. It nodded. After some further moments at our game, I settled back to my coffee and it settled down lower on the floor and gazed at me for quite some time, until eventually shutting its eyes. Then when I rose to go it perked up and looked at me, blinked its eyes, tilted its head and flapped its tail against a chair leg. I did the same (well, with my eyes and head, lacking any tail to flap), and left. I felt that I shouldn't photograph it without permission - without its permission, I mean. Two very different brains but composed of very similar neurons, having a moment of mutual understanding, I feel, during this very strange experience we share, called life. Or perhaps I was only having a cup of coffee.