The Chatty Tree
Aug. 7th, 2025 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootThe girls are are needy right now. If I sit in the front room at all, there's quickly one on my lap and one beside me, possibly to comfort a sad human but my sense is that they need comfort too. Tomorrow friend turns up for adventures at the Fringe. It will be good for us though the cats, who prefer no change in any way, will find it stressful. Having said that, they know our friend. I know it's early but we must shift ourselves, attend to body and mind, try to make room for something other than grief. Hard though.
The vets bills have been paid, likewise the cremation and container, everything that needed to be done is complete. A few weeks back before any of this happened, R had made an appointment with a solicitor to discuss our wills. The questionnaire is somewhat sobering and we had to curtail the meeting because - well, it's all closing in a bit. We need more time.
We didn't scatter Surya's ashes and we won't scatter Ralik's. I would sooner be buried in a high place near the sea if possible and have a nice tall tree planted on top to help us all breathe. R said he would like his ashes scattered at the same point where my tree stands. Then would be the time to scatter the ashes of our dear pets. We will all be together and apart at the same time. I like the poetry in that.
And you, if you ever need to talk or read a book or just sit, you'll be welcome to visit. All trees know when to be quiet but I would expect mine to be quite a chatty tree.
The vets bills have been paid, likewise the cremation and container, everything that needed to be done is complete. A few weeks back before any of this happened, R had made an appointment with a solicitor to discuss our wills. The questionnaire is somewhat sobering and we had to curtail the meeting because - well, it's all closing in a bit. We need more time.
We didn't scatter Surya's ashes and we won't scatter Ralik's. I would sooner be buried in a high place near the sea if possible and have a nice tall tree planted on top to help us all breathe. R said he would like his ashes scattered at the same point where my tree stands. Then would be the time to scatter the ashes of our dear pets. We will all be together and apart at the same time. I like the poetry in that.
And you, if you ever need to talk or read a book or just sit, you'll be welcome to visit. All trees know when to be quiet but I would expect mine to be quite a chatty tree.
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Date: 2025-08-07 11:50 am (UTC)