Re: My sweet Darla
Hi Sarah,
Thank you for sharing more about your life with your sweet Darla. It is a joy to be able to "see" her in her usual environment, tho I can well imagine the emptiness your lap feels.
I think it was Robert Frost who wrote about us in one of his poems - "us" being true animal lovers. The poem talks about people like us who let an animal into our lives knowing there are very good odds we are going to out-live them. We open our hearts and homes to these little souls and they become part of our souls forever and ever. We take the pain of loss that we know is coming in exchange for a love and companionship that cannot be compared, that is beyond worth.
Darla has made her spot in your soul and there she will remain until you can be together once again. In time, that spot will not hold so much pain but rather good memories and when you reach for that special spot, a gentle warmth will reach back.
Hugs to you, Rascal and Tigger,
Leslie and the girls
"May you know that absence is full of tender presence and that nothing is ever lost or forgotten." John O'Donahue, "Eternal Echoes"
Death is not a changing of worlds as most imagine, as much as the walls of this world infinitely expanding.