My Ex's 57th Birthday

Today Bob will be 57 years young.  My ex. 
My one and only true love. 

To you, I dedicate this quote:

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

~Buddha

 

It has been my great good fortune to have the privilege of meeting and living with eight irrisistible animals who give me unconditional love each and every day.

 

For this I am grateful.

 

It has been almost a year since Suzy died.

 It was at this time, one year ago, that mortality

truly hit me---hard.  And I knew that my beloved and I would

soon be parted---for eternity.

 

Aside from the loss of my husband, this was my greatest loss.

 

Exactly one year ago, today, I went for a camel ride at the

John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, MI

I had to get out of the house for a while.

The pain of seeing my darling slowly dying was really

getting to me, so I took off for the zoo with a friend.

We rode camels and took lots of pictures.

I got "out" of myself for a little while.

It's good to do.  Especially when stress, grief and loss

are constant bedfellows.