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Tag Archives: grief
Blue
captivated by a guinea pig named Blue. i remembered a thing or two…. sometimes the best thing, sometimes the only thing, is to be with You. . even if You are very small, and blue.
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Tagged adopt, amo, animal assisted chaplaincy, blue, cavy, depression, greiving, grief, guinea pig, healing, i love you, ink brush meditations, ink brush painting, love, mysticism, pet rodents, piggies, pocket pets, poetry, rodents as pets, spirituality, support, water color
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Nike
named not after the goddess, but the shoe, by a boy who liked to run. Nike, the beagle, ran. as did the boy, now man… both became lost, yet, perhaps the goddess was looking out for them anyway – too … Continue reading
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Tagged animal assisted chaplaincy, beagles, dogs, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-mysticism, eco-spirituality, Elizabeth Teal., faith, goddess, grief, home, hounds, interspecies spirituality, loss, love, Ministry of Animals, Mt olympus, nature, nike, pet loss, poetry, running, shoe, spirituality, sumi-e, Victoria
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morning darkness
in the morning darkness before the sun has risen, light still shines hidden in the deep soft fur of Love.
Life and death
before me on the table is a vase of dead flowers, i ponder them, there life gone, their color too – i ponder them and think of You… i take take them out – stems wet and soggy – and … Continue reading
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Tagged amphibians, baby frogs, brush painting, contemplation, contemplative practice, dead flowers, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-mysticism, eco-spirituality, frogs, Good Friday, grief, ink, interspecies spirituality, interspirituality, joy, life, meditation, mysticism, nature, poetry, possibilities, resurrection, sadness, spirituality, vase, water color
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loss
somedays if feels like everything is lost in loss. like you have fallen in the mud and it all comes falling in too… but is that true? is that really true? when you have such grand angels watching over you…. … Continue reading
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Tagged angels, animal assisted chaplaincy, compassion, death of a parent, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-mysticism, eco-spirituality, geese, goslings, greiving, grief, ink brush meditiation, ink brush painting, interspecies spirituality, interspirituality, loss, love, mated for life, mysticism, nature, parenting, poetry, spirituality, sumi-e, trauma, trauma and loss
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Space and longing
Some days the world is upside, The only thing to be done is to love. Again and again… And keep spinning. Holding sacred space, Longing for you, And You are everywhere……
unto others
in the middle of my road lay a black cat. was it my black cat? my heart! oh no. it was not my black cat…. . wrapped in a black towel i took him to the vet to see if … Continue reading
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Tagged 'do unto others', art, black cats, cat, cat hit by car, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-mysticism, eco-spirituality, grief, interspecies spirituality, kindness, loss, mourning, mysticism, poetry, reciprocity, road kill, shock, spirituality, sumi-e
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the garage
the last passenger of my mother’s little red car was a feral calico who purred her way onto a lap and into a heart. The car took her last trip today…. my mother’s last ride on this earth was several … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, calico cat, car garage, cars, dead car, faith, feral cat, grief, little red cars, mother, mourning, old car, poetry, trust
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