Apologies for the long silence and the many un-returned calls and texts. This has been a tough couple weeks. My hope is that this new blog will make it easier for me to keep people updated and we can save our "connection time" for more fun stuff!
Today I want to share the emotional, beautiful, loving time we have shared with our family dog, Tiller, whom we had to put down yesterday. Tiller was surrounded by our family (sadly, me by zoom) and smothered in so much love as we said our goodbyes and shared stories of her full life. We are devastated to say goodbye and yet, we can all see her time has come. As much as that hurts, each person in our family is learning to accept that every living thing moves on from this life to the next. This must be the heaviest lesson in life - especially when you love something so much and you don't want to let them go. Each of us are learning to embrace this concept and it is so, so, so hard. There are so many spiritual paths, so many rays of hope, so many messages to tune into...it's hard to know what to say or believe or how to comfort the ones you love when they are grieving. But as I watched my family love Tiller with all of their hearts and and join together to send her off with so much love from this life to the next; the beam and power of love was so poignant and powerful. There are no definitive answers to give as to where Tiller has gone - none of us know until we get there - but one thing that is undeniable - love will carry us wherever that may be and, it is beautiful.
Oh, Tiller! She was such a good girl. xoxo