Archive for October, 2005

Blessings at Samhain


Have a wonderful and uplifting Samhain evening, everyone! May those of us who have lost loved ones over the past year take the opportunity of this sacred day and night to remember the departed with love and courage and hope, and in so doing honour their memory.

If you wish to commune with those who have slipped beyond this life, may your efforts be successful if it is right that they are.

And if you simply want to sit quietly and meditate on good times had with friends, family or lovers you sorely miss, then I hope you enjoy the blessed act of remembrance. It can be its own reward at Samhain, without embellishment required or requested.

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Monday, October 31st, 2005

Poem: A Random Act of Kindness


She’d been lying in the road when spotted.
A bin bag? No. A cat, my lover said. Go see what can be done.
So I went. I saw what could be done.

I stood and praised her beauty.
It was necessary and important.

Her purr was loud, considering she was dead
but I heard it all the same: a resonant hum
coming from just above the body, which lay there so still,
so warm, her death having come only minutes before.

I told her she was gorgeous
because she was.

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Monday, October 31st, 2005