So, the cat died.
Me, I'm not an Afterlife person. I think that when the breath is gone, we go back into the grand dance of everything, the eternal sabbat of the atoms. And this seems to me both beautiful and good.
But as I move through a house newly filled with absences, stillnesses where I expect movement, it somehow consoles me to think of the Antlered sitting cross-legged with all the animals around Him, and old Mr. Rudycat snugged up in His lap. Or, more likely, draped around His neck and across His shoulders like a black-and-white fur collar, but with a pink nose. And probably switching Him in the face with a long, black tail from time to time.
Yep, that's the Rude all right.
Emily was the first kid to grow up in the local pagan community, and you couldn't help but feel a sense of investment in her. Smart, talented, charismatic, it was evident to everyone that she was going to be High Priestess of Minnesota some day, if not the first pagan president. When she died unexpectedly at 21, her death shook us all.
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Apparently there is something like nine times as much to do and explore in the spirit as there is physically, but without the burd
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In the greater scheme of things, the loss of a pet seems a small grief, but it's a grief nonetheless. Thanks, Mark.
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Beautifully said. As a fellow atheist Pagan, I like the framing and I'm sorry for your loss.
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I once read that we lay down our path through the afterlife in the dreams we have when we are asleep. That we know the dead live
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Oh gods. You mean the scheduling crunch doesn't let up after death?