> From: "Warren Ockrassa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Aug 3, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Doug wrote: > > > Their lives are way too short, aren't they? > Those who say "it's just a cat" or "it's just a dog" just won't > understand.
In her last days, Moppins was a tiny ball of long-furred love, always sitting on the arm of my chair, on my lap, on my face while I slept. A puff of clinging love. A purring epiphyte. Living almost solely on our companionship. I've missed Moppins for a year now. There's been a palpable absence near me. The Costa Rican rain forests are covered in epiphytes including bromeliads, orchids and mosses, flowering and rich, home to frogs and insects and other plants. Last month, walking through the paths with the canopy dozens and even hundreds of feet overhead, thoroughly covered in colourful commensals and their hosted ecologies, brought her back to me. As if she lived on in that place she'd never been, within the thousands of green leaves. It surprised me to find peace this way. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/DirkvdM_epiphytes.jpg/300px-DirkvdM_epiphytes.jpg If only every goodbye found such grace. Carolyn _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
