devotion

(THIS IS A POST FROM OCTOBER 6, 2022)

As some of you know, we lost our beloved dog Mecho last Friday.

I am still integrating and processing, sinking deeper into everything that he taught us, into the incredible joy and love he offered.

I realized today that one of the many things he is offering right now is a chance to truly receive love from others, I have received so many kind words, images, phone calls, energetic and physical gifts. I am letting myself soak it in.

One of these things is from friend and incredible writer/author/teacher/healer Janice Lee. I am going to let Janice's words shine through today in the newsletter. This quote is from their article "After Benny", referencing their dog who passed. It really resonates with how I feel.

"When one experiences a loss like this, it’s not just the absence of the person or being. It’s not just that they are missing from every aspect of your life. It’s also that you have an excess of love, all of the love that you had to give that has now been displaced. And you are left there, with an overabundance of emotion, with no container to hold it, just your own body, another reminder of the ways we overfill, the love that once was joy, brimming out of the body in the form of tears, in the form of uncontrollable laughter, in the form of sobbing, in the form of stillness. So much stillness. And you remain there, in the darkness, with your own heart, with the images of him that you keep conjuring, so that you feel less alone. You are not alone, you want to say. You are not alone, you remember."
--Janice Lee

Read the entire article HERE.


Wishing you all love and healing on this beautiful day,
Tracy