[Oe List ...] A short meditation on new life

[Beret Griffith]

Thank you David.. Your note has me reflecting on Sophia (Russian Blue),
Dakini (Havana Brown) and (Oden - Main Coon) beloved furry friends over the
years. Beret


On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM Jann McGuire via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Thank you, David.
>
> In memory of my many 4-legged friends over the years,
>
> Jann McGuire
> Arroyo Grande, CA
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM ML Jones via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your kind sharing. Reminds me of Skippy and Lady who were
>> dear friends, Mary Laura
>>
>> Mary Laura Jones
>> Grants Resource Development Consultant
>> 53599 Pulver Road
>> Three Rivers, MI 49093
>> cell: 773 636-2022
>> mljones2022 at gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM Linda and Milan Hamilton via OE <
>> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>>
>>> They worm their way into our hearts and leave a hole when they leave us.
>>> Milan
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Mar 3, 2025, at 10:24 PM, PAUL SCHRIJNEN via OE <
>>> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank you David,
>>>
>>> The tears and wonder of grief.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>> On 4 Mar 2025, at 00:01, David Dunn via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> *Tiny Animals*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I bring four Animal Crackers with me into the study, pick one up and say
>>> softly to BuDa-behind-my-eye, “BuDa, this is a tiny hippopotamus.” I offer
>>> it carefully to the air. I pick up another Animal Cracker and speak
>>> confidentially to BuDa-in-my-memory as if revealing a secret between us,
>>> “BuDa, this is a tiny rhinoceros.” I love watching his keen anticipation.
>>>
>>> He takes each Animal Cracker gently into his mouth and chews it with
>>> relish. He knows that I usually offer just two; he hesitates briefly, just
>>> in case there is a third, then lies down at my feet. By now I am heart
>>> broken and my tears well up and out and down my cheek.
>>>
>>> Yet I give thanks to the Creator of dogs and humans, especially brindle
>>> Boxers who remind me of the Boxer named Gretchen of my childhood, who died
>>> chasing a car when I was in fourth grade. She disappeared one day without a
>>> trace. It was the only time I remember my mother crying. I don't remember
>>> crying, but perhaps my heart has remembered the deep, unattended sadness.
>>>
>>> I have wanted to own a Boxer for many years; unfinished heart work might
>>> have been calling for attention. So I give thanks to the Creator of human
>>> emotions, tear glands, the 14,000-year evolution of the human-dog
>>> partnership, and BuDa, our barely-young-adult Boxer who died of a broken
>>> heart—a congenital heart disease that left him weak and breathless—on
>>> January 11, 2025. Sadly, sometimes evolution veers off on mortal tangents.
>>> It’s a known thing among Boxers.
>>>
>>> Thankfully, evolution’s main mission is to find paths that allow all
>>> that is to change: for lava to become land, for green leaves to create
>>> oxygen, for animals to survive the chaos of evolving and for human beings,
>>> the ability to see when it’s time to evolve. When the familiar beloved
>>> dies, a broken heart can open to something like light that changes us.
>>> Plants reflexively turn toward the light. For human beings, darkness
>>> reveals a grand paradox: darkness becomes light and light reveals the way
>>> of being made new.
>>>
>>> I give thanks to the Holy Mysterious Creator for the efficacy of this
>>> tiny ritual that has brought tears to my eyes, memories to my mind, life
>>> and depth to my heart and the conviction that I can become the one I have
>>> always yearned to be.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> —
>>>
>>> David Dunn
>>> Creative Companion/Personal Publishing
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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