June Newsletter

Hello friends,

This is not your usual newsletter, as I am granted myself a pause for the month of June.

2 weeks ago, my beloved 17 year-old friend Chipie passed, and she has left an abyss in my everyday life.

I miss her companionship, the myriad of small details of our everyday interactions, the softness of her fur, her little noises and quirks. I keep hearing her little claws on the carpet, expecting to see her when I turn my head. My brain is doing weird things, like right before waking up this morning, when I felt the bed and covers move as if she was coming to greet me as she always did, before my eyes were even open.

The other layer is that she is my second senior furry friend who passed in the past few years and, with her, a chapter of 20 years is closing. Memories, and pivotal moments, and all the ups and downs of life, we were together, the 3 of us.

Yet again, as we all do, I’m transitioning, witnessing my shifting identity and navigating a new relationship to Home, which until now had always been a place I couldn’t wait to come back to. Right now, it’s quiet and still, and I’m left to sit with that discomfort as a baseline, and the urge to leave.

Some of you will know exactly what I mean, and some of you will feel dismissive to the importance given to a pet. It’s okay.

All I know is that grief is grief, and it’s tender, and it’s lonely.

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