I will look for the poem Jan wrote, Lavender. And give Tuxie a rough series of licks for me, in token of Saki's "obsessive grooming", ha ha. Yes, they love grooming each other to the point of Deep Spittiness, do they not?
I hope you will be able to let go of the "what if" scenarios. No one ever gets it right, when the ending is death. People think they make the right decisions when the outcome is continued life, but not if the outcome is death. Still, however resisted, death comes to us all, our pets and ourselves, whatever our decisions, "the Gift of the Second Born." As Arwen might have said, once she'd been left by the death of Aragorn, "Some gift!". Mortality remains our brick wall--scary, inevitable and daunting--yet, perhaps as Tolkien believed, there is, however unimaginable, a wider, deeper life on the other side of death's wall. That is my hope, even if I still find the wall "scary, inevitable and daunting".
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Date: 2015-10-17 11:23 pm (UTC)I hope you will be able to let go of the "what if" scenarios. No one ever gets it right, when the ending is death. People think they make the right decisions when the outcome is continued life, but not if the outcome is death. Still, however resisted, death comes to us all, our pets and ourselves, whatever our decisions, "the Gift of the Second Born." As Arwen might have said, once she'd been left by the death of Aragorn, "Some gift!". Mortality remains our brick wall--scary, inevitable and daunting--yet, perhaps as Tolkien believed, there is, however unimaginable, a wider, deeper life on the other side of death's wall. That is my hope, even if I still find the wall "scary, inevitable and daunting".