Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.
Our animals have such a big and important place in our hearts, don’t they? That was a beautiful post you wrote back then, honouring Tycho. I had a similar thing with my dog…I lost my Mum very suddenly and unexpectedly, and two months later my dog, at a premature age 6. I was so full of grief for my Mum that I hadn’t noticed he wasn’t ‘quite right’. It was utterly heartbreaking. Grief upon grief upon grief (there was still more to come, had I known I might have jumped off the bus), and yet it’s opened my heart, and I’m a better person (I think!) for it.
I lost my cat, Bailey, last month. She died in her sleep a day after my wedding, boarded at the vet because she was too sick to stay home alone. I know we did the right things for her and that she wasn’t ready to go until then, sick as she was. My heart will ache for a long time, as I’m sure yours still does for your Tycho.
I couldn’t read Tycho’s story all the way through. It was too painful and close to home for me. I just sent my beloved Bear Home, as you know, and it is among the hardest things I’ve ever had to do.
Tycho was a beautiful soul, I can see it in his eyes. Very similar in personality to my zen kitty, Bear, may they both rest in peace and eternal love.
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ABOUT PATTI
In 2005, Patti Digh started her blog, 37days, following the death of her stepfather who died just 37 days after being diagnosed with cancer. Six books about living mindfully followed. And there’s more to come.