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This made me smile, but I was getting worried about Grandma.

 
Elephant Family Sleeping

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God went to India

To see the elephants.

God adores elephants.

He thinks they are

the best thing

He ever made.

They do everything

He hoped for:

They love their children,

they don’t kill,

they mourn their dead.

This last thing is

especially important

to God.

Elephants visit the graves

of those they loved.

They spend hours there.

They fondle the dry bones.

They mourn.

God understands mourning

better than any other emotion,

better even than love.

Because He has lost

everything He has

ever made.

You make life,

you make death.

The things God makes

always turn into

something else and

He does find this good.

But He can’t help missing all the originals.

–Cynthia Rylant
 
Elephant Family Sleeping

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God went to India

To see the elephants.

God adores elephants.

He thinks they are

the best thing

He ever made.

They do everything

He hoped for:

They love their children,

they don’t kill,

they mourn their dead.

This last thing is

especially important

to God.

Elephants visit the graves

of those they loved.

They spend hours there.

They fondle the dry bones.

They mourn.

God understands mourning

better than any other emotion,

better even than love.

Because He has lost

everything He has

ever made.

You make life,

you make death.

The things God makes

always turn into

something else and

He does find this good.

But He can’t help missing all the originals.

–Cynthia Rylant
Elephants are led, not by alpha males, but by older female matriarchs.
 
The latest missive by my neighborhood "Prose Lady". As always, relevant to the moment....

May we raise children
who love the unloved
things - the dandelion, the
worms & spiderlings.
Children who sense
the rose needs the thorn

& and run into rainswept days
the same way they
turn towards the sun...

And when they're grown &
someone has to speak for those
who have no voice

may they draw upon that
wilder bond, those days of
tending tender things

and be the ones.

Nicolette Sowder
 
Remember the children's book, Wind in the Willows? Heroes are a rat, a pig, a spider. Not exactly popular animals.
 
One of our pups passed away today. She was 16. Lived a long life. She had been on a decline the past year or so, but really took a turn in the last 24 hours.

My wife got the dog a few months before we started dating as a puppy, so I've basically been with it for 15 and a half years or so.

Rest in peace!
 
One of our pups passed away today. She was 16. Lived a long life. She had been on a decline the past year or so, but really took a turn in the last 24 hours.

My wife got the dog a few months before we started dating as a puppy, so I've basically been with it for 15 and a half years or so.

Rest in peace!
RIP
So sorry
 
One of our pups passed away today. She was 16. Lived a long life. She had been on a decline the past year or so, but really took a turn in the last 24 hours.

My wife got the dog a few months before we started dating as a puppy, so I've basically been with it for 15 and a half years or so.

Rest in peace!

RIP pup!
 

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