I have been planning a series on "Grief and Grieving" -- and tonight got a call from very dear friends saying that one of their two dogs had died. The spiritual wound made by loss has come to them. My friends had a brother and a litter mate sister. Their two Bichon Frises were 10 years old, and had been loved and cared for in all the best ways. The little boy dog, Whidbey, died today, after a very brief struggle with what turned out to be pervasive cancer.