Ingemar Learns With His Eyes Poem by Dennis Ryan

Saturday morning, May 21,2005,7: 30 am

In the movie My Life As A Dog, Ingemar says, "It's wise to forget, "
and I agree, wish I could forget so many things; then again,
there are things we should never forget, like Auschwitz, Buchenwald,
so it's hard to say anything absolute about forgetting.I'm not sure
we're built to forget very much—people are so petty—and we need
to take ourselves into account as we are, as we hope to become.
That's also a wise choice.Ingemar has this smile that endears him
to everyone—to his mother, his dog, his uncle, his teacher, his friends,
and to us, the viewers, who know he will be okay once he warms up.
And he doesn't forget—no, he doesn't forget—he sees with his eyes.