That’s the thing about life and death, I have learned that they are not different things, but different parts of the same thing: life.
This morning, we had to kill Zelda, this afternoon I got an e-mail from Lenore, our breeder, that Garnett had given birth to seven puppies, four males, and three females.
So far, everyone is healthy, Garnett looks like a top-notch mother.
I hope one of them is Zinnia, the female we hope to bring home in November and keep as a family pet and train as a therapy dog. If all goes well, we’ll be able to visit at some point and if our Zinnia is in there.
I am well aware of the irony of life as a wheel. Isn’t life like that sometimes?
In the morning, Zelda dies, in the afternoon, our next dog has perhaps been born. Everything has meaning, and this will always be a special day in our hearts, whatever happens.
I have always understood life to be a wheel, it turns and turns. Life and death dance together. I’m excited about these puppies, I believe one of them is the dog we want and hope to have.
Garnett bred early – she was due on the 20th – if Zinnia comes home with us, it will be close to Thanksgiving. It feels like it is all coming together. I control so little of life, I am learning to sit back and appreciate the wonderful spectacle that it is.
Life is a wonder for sure! Round and round it goes. Farewell Zelda, welcome Zinnia!
To everything there is a season. A time to be born, a time to die.
What a beautiful family … And tired mom.
Congratulations!
Jon – it would be wonderfully just if Zelda manifests herself in Zinnia but it would not suit your “plans” for your pup. Watch out – karma can be a….. well…. you probably have heard the phrase…. š Prayers that your pup will be in this litter.
I’m smiling Julie, thought the idea of Zelda’s spirit in a Lab puppy is somewhat terrifying..:) not good for a therapy dog either bodies flying all over the place..
That circle of life thing seems very appropriate here..Zelda, whose name starts with Z, leaves this life and shortly after, what we are all hoping will be Zinnia with a Z enters it.what could be more right?
I follow you Dailey/ I live and read the San Francisco. Chronicle each morning / delivered to my desk at 0600/ thought Iād share this with you today on the front page 1/4 of page a close up of a sheep in pasture. Coincidence ? I think not….