Posted in In Memoriam

Our Tree of Love memorial is very moving, and I cannot read the tributes without crying. It is a very touching idea, to put together the notes for deceased pets. read more

Posted in In Memoriam

"We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan..." from "The Once Again Prince" b… read more

Posted in In Memoriam

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragi… read more