5 thoughts on “Sunday Morning: On A Small Grief

  1. Honestly, having pets is maybe a microcosm of human life, and especially having them as a kid helps you learn (? as much as one ever can) to cope with the joys of relationship and the grief of death and saying stuff like “I’ll never love ever again because it hurts too much.”

    I lost a good friend very suddenly back in February and it still hurts when I think about it. And I’ve had other people in my life who have suffered and I’ve said “I wish I didn’t care about other people because it hurts when they are hurting or when they die.” But what are you going to do?

    And the whole world. The world is a terrible place but it’s also a wonderful place and I admit this year more than many I’ve ricocheted between absolute despair over things like the state of the world and joy with people that I love…Report

  2. I haven’t written much about it, but we lost Murphy, our Labrador retriever, back in February. I once referred to him here as ‘one of the great loves of my life’. I cried more than I did when my dad passed away. It was one of the most emotionally exhausting experiences of my life, but we love dogs, and we persist. I will definitely purchase this for the next time we have to go through that hard process.Report

  3. Losing pets is not fun. After our beloved dog Soup passed a few years ago, we waited. And then we talked. And then we looked. We saw a couple of cute little ones at the SPCA and C remarked: “wouldn’t two be nice…”

    And now we have Barnaby, the six million dollar Napoleon. More personality than you can shake a stick at.Report

  4. I need to start reading again lest I, irrevocably, become my current living partner.

    On my list: Being Colloquial In Esperanto by David K. Jordan with gems like, “Metu viajn aferojn en la bluan cxambron, cxar tie mankas fantomoj. – Put your things in the blue room, since there’re no ghosts there.”

    Time Loops by Eric Wargo. Precognition, jouissance, and the Minkowski block universe. One can read more of his stuff at thenightshirt.com for an idea of what he’s driving at with his maverick theory. Also he’s a materialist and one of the friends I’ve made while writing at The Anomalist.Report

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