Nothing gold can stay
Suley died this morning. Just one week after his brother. I can’t believe it. I lost them both in one week. The whole litter is now gone. My darlings are gone.
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Oh, Claire. I'm so, so sorry. I grieve with you.
That's such bad timing. I'm here, and still well enough to work some - please tell me if there's anything I can do to make things easier in the coming days. I know they will be long.
Every time I've lost a pet I've found that the grief makes it easier for me to also grieve other, even larger losses. My pets have healed me in life, and in death. I pray they do the same for you as you grieve (as we all grieve!) the atrocities in Israel.
Somehow after the stress of this week, this one small extra sadness has me crying in my classroom. I’m so sorry for this loss.