Saying goodbye is never easy
It’s a sad reality that our dogs lives are short, and although we are aware of that from the onset, it still hits us like a speeding truck at the end.
From our first days to the last
I somehow thought we had more time
We managed to create a tapestry of days running one into the next
Patterns, habits and expectations that created a sense of forever
Life with our dogs is so short and eventually we run out of time
And no matter how long we’ve had
It is never enough
Never enough time to sit on the couch and cuddle
To play in the snow
To laugh as you rubbed your back under a tree, under my desk until I yelled (while I was simultaneously laughing), rubbing yourself under the Christmas tree or anything you could reach really
To come home and find you waiting by the door
Our dogs are gifts of pure emotion, of openness, vulnerability and a life lived in the present moment
And when they go they will take a piece of you with them
A piece that is uniquely connected to that special one
It’s silly really to be so attached to a drooling, mess making, time and energy consuming creature
But it’s what we do
And then hopefully
We get to do it all again
To share our heart and home and share our life with a different species we call family
It’s weird coming home without you at the front door
Bookends of time, markers of events in our lives, of years passed and changes we lived together.
Good bye Cowie
You were one of a kind
Our story ended March 16th, 2023