On Sunday it was a
year since we put our beautiful cat Minerva down. She was 15 years old, and her
kidneys were failing and she only had about 10 percent lung capacity. We didn’t
want her to suffer. It was an honour to be there for her as she took her last
breath and passed away while we told her over and over again that we loved her
– and we still do love her.
In honour of her and
the one year anniversary of her death I put her urn with her ashes in the
sunshine. I lit some incense and Kirby and I sat and remembered all the funny
things she used to do.
We laughed a lot
recalling different things. Such as the time when I was blowing on the top of a
bottle to make musical sounds, and she came running in, jumped on my lap,
smacked me in the face with her paw, then got down and ran back up the hallway.
I guess she didn’t like the music I was making! I recall sitting there stunned
and then bursting out laughing hysterically – as did Kirby as he was a witness
to it.
Thinking about Minerva
and all the little things she used to do got me thinking about all the small
things in my life that make life interesting, fun, humbling, and sometimes have
me feeling wistful.
All the small things
that I am honoured to have in my life.
So instead of writing
more – here is a collage of just some of the small things I love.
2 comments:
I'm glad you can enjoy the good memories of life with Minerva. And I love your collage of the small things you love. I'm tempted to do something similar now!
The collage was good fun to do - thinking about all the things that matter to me...even the pencil! It's my lucky pencil I've had for about 20 years...!
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