Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/26

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Subject: [Leica] A Monday flower
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Mon Sep 26 16:12:03 2005

Thanks, Don - kind and wise words. And your daughter learned some important
and painful lessons.

Best
B. D.


On 9/26/05 7:08 PM, "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:

> B.D.,
> I am sorry about your poodle. Deciding matters of life and death for those
> who have no say is always difficult if you have a heart. We had to put down
> our cat of twenty years last week. He had a stroke literally in my 
> daughters
> arms, lost his vision and some motor control. This was a true lesson of
> death for her as the death of her grandmother and grandfather had not been
> personal to her as much as she loved her grandmother. But, a fellow 
> travelor
> who had slept in her bed, demanded fealty in the afternoon, and who had
> brought peace offerings of dead rodents(and smoe not so dead) was 
> especially
> hard when the time came to bid goodbye, hold for the last time and
> ultimately bury under a favourite haunt. Although not people, our pets
> frequently become our confessor, a friend, and a fellow travelor who is
> there when others are not.
>  My sympathies and condolences.
>  Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>  On 9/26/05, B.D. Colen <bd_colen@harvard.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/Fleur
>> 
>> A photo with a point? Probably not. But...
>> 
>> 
>> 
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