We continue along happily with Poodle.
I saw you when I
Was not looking for you, and
You did not see me.
There was no plan, no passion no persuasion. A photo on senior rescue page Act2pups had spurned a tiny interest, but passing, definitely no commitment. Definitely no desire to uproot the balance and peacefulness of our two dog, one cat household.
So yes, I saw him. I was not looking for him. And he did not see me. Of course not, he was blind.
Yet two days later the two dogs and one cat did not bat an eyelid when he stumbled into our home.
As very difficult as he was.
As much an an upheaval of our life he made.
He left this world a few years later happier – I think.
And us pretty darn devastated.
He left so many memories. We renamed our terrace level in our 3 level backyard Middle Earth. We still call it that.
That was where we took him outside – the only grassed area and far away from the swimming pool.
Middle Earth is what it remains where Poodle navigated the grass and azaleas, and felt the warmth and wind and sometimes the snow and the sleet.
We planted a remembrance garden there for him.
Funny I wasn’t even looking for him. Yet now Middle Earth is his.
How wonderfully Serendipitous.
And what a great word. Serendipity.
Finding great things, experiencing magical moments without even looking for them. Being open to life’s flow.
Which takes us back a few episodes of this podcast to – to offer no resistance to life is to live In a state of grace, ease and lightness.
Poodle’s existence with us was by no means characterized by grace, ease or lightness. Quite the contrary actually.
But it is what we are left with. That and Middle Earth.
And that’s quite an epitaph for an old, unwanted deaf and blind dog. Don’t you think?
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