27/08/2024
To honour our friends on international dog day and every day. In the last month two of our friends have walked over the rainbow bridge, we will forever have Tayla and Hunter in our hearts, both of our rainbow dogs were nine !
My mum loves Mary Oliver the poet -
Percy (nine)
Your friend is coming I say
to Percy, and name a name
and he runs to the door, his
wide mouth in its laugh-shape,
and waves, since he has one, his tail.
Emerson, I am trying to live,
as you said we must, the examined life.
But there are days I wish
there was less in my head to examine,
not to speak of the busy heart. How
would it be to be Percy, I wonder, not
thinking, not weighing anything, just running forward.
We know that all our friends who are over the rainbow bridge are playing with all the balls, splashing in all the puddles, tails wagging with no pain and all the treats and special ice cream from ice cream truck. We are not rushing to get there - our jobs are not done yet here.
