by wonderersheart | Nov 23, 2011 | Dogs: loving and losing dogs, Grief and grieving, Life after loss |
I am reading Blue Nights by Joan Didion, she’s an author who determinedly dissects her experiences of loss working over the hurt, baring harrowing personal wounds. Early in the book Joan Didion refers the psychiatrist Karl Menninger’s work Man Against...
by wonderersheart | Nov 11, 2011 | Dogs: loving and losing dogs |
Shortbread McMonkey McBean 20/07/1999 – 11/11/2011 My dear little dog died. You might know the song To Love Somebody, the chorus is: “You don’t know what its like to love somebody the way I love you…” Everbody, every man, every woman and...
by wonderersheart | Apr 28, 2011 | Dogs: loving and losing dogs |
One of the surprising and inevitable things that happened after Mottsu died were calls and mail for him. Inevitable because many people and companies could not know he is dead, and surprising because each attempted contact with the dead was a jolting reminder of my...
by wonderersheart | Sep 28, 2010 | Dogs: loving and losing dogs, Grief and grieving |
I found myself missing Wally, the Border Terrier, this morning. A string of somewhat coherent thoughts cruised through my head and left me picturing Wally. I remembered him sitting by the car one day and shaking, his whole body trembling and his little face set with...
by wonderersheart | Apr 17, 2010 | Dogs: loving and losing dogs |
Mentioning when I burned my house makes me remember the different reactions of different beings (the dogs) to the same event. It was just past mid-night when I was awoken by a neighbour beating on the door. The back section of my house was ablaze. It was more than I...
by wonderersheart | Feb 23, 2010 | Dogs: loving and losing dogs |
From the time Mottsu died, I began to dread the time Wally, his dog, would die. I wonder if others do that, after someone close to you dies and the mortality of all living things is reaffirmed, do you anticipate a further loss as unbearable? If that apprehension is a...
