Just back from the Vet having decided that Ziggy had no life to lead and it was right put put him to sleep.
Weeping like a baby because it has been 12 years in sharing all our lives with him in two homes. Night and day.
It was terrible taking him having made the decision. The tests we waited for confirmed the worst and he could not have survived.
So sad at Wilson Mansions
“The most beautiful people
we have known
are those who have
known defeat,
known suffering,
known struggle,
known loss,
and have found their way
out of the depths.
These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"You will lose someone
you can’t live without,
and your heart
will be badly broken,
and the bad news is
that you never completely
get over the loss
of your beloved.
But
this is also the good news.
They live forever
in your broken heart
that doesn’t seal back up.
And you come through.
It’s like having a broken leg
that never heals perfectly
—that still hurts
when the weather gets cold,
but
you learn to dance
with the limp."
— Anne Lamott
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• THE STRESS FACTOR •
The most obvious way in which the mind adversely affects the body is through stress. For instance, imagine you are trying to squeeze some toothpaste out of a tube but you have forgotten to take the top off (or to flip the lid).
What happens?
It has to find some other way out.
This usually means that the toothpaste emerges from the bottom of the tube, or perhaps forces a hole in the side - whichever is the weakest point.
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Recession/
don't allow your soul/
into poverty/
a poverty that imprisons/ the spirit
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