Sat 01 February 2025

Last night I had one of those "your loved one isn't actually dead!" dreams, but about my cat.

I used to have them a lot about my stepdad that passed away many years ago, and I had a handful about my boss that sadly ended his own life a decade …

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Tags: 100DaysToOffload   Beauty   Life   Loss   Non-religious post   Non-technical post   Philosophy   Prose  

Fri 15 November 2024

I was going to go in a different direction for tonight's blog post (thanks to the help of some kind fedifriends), but while starting on that post, I felt like I needed to revive a blog post idea from a few weeks ago first.

A month and four days ago …

Category: Life
Tags: Beauty   Life   Loss   Non-religious post   Non-technical post   WritingMonth  

Sun 13 October 2024

The working title of my previous post was, "A Grief Exchanged."

I couldn't quite make the title work in my head, so I abandoned it for "Adoption," which still works well.

I'm re-claiming that title for this post, because I can make more sense of where I was going with …

Category: Life
Tags: Beauty   Life   Loss   Non-religious post   Non-technical post  

Fri 11 October 2024

I wrote six months ago about the process of mourning and also my struggle to find another cat to adopt. There were a couple times that I had visited with a cat at a shelter and slowly warmed up to the possibility of adopting them, only to find that the …

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Thu 11 July 2024

Just moments ago, I removed the cat bed that's been on the corner of my bed for the past nine months, and placed it in the closet.

Minutes before that, as I walked into my home, I called out to my cat one last time (which I had done nearly …

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Tags: Life   Loss   Personal favorites   Non-religious post   Non-technical post   Prose  

Thu 11 April 2024

Content Warning: This post deals with the loss of a pet. Also, Christian themes.

This will probably be my last post on this subject for a while. I do not wish to labor the point, but today marks the sixth month of my cat passing, and I felt that I …

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Tags: Content Warning   Life   Loss   Non-technical post  

Mon 11 December 2023

Content Warning: This post deals with loss

As I have alluded to before, there is a certain process of effacing that time does to loss and grief, as well as the memory of the departed.

I'm staring at the two month mark, and while I've had some truly dark moments …

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Wed 15 November 2023

Content Warning: This post deals with grief

Yet again, I had planned to write about healthy mourning, and yet again, what's on my mind being hijacked by what's rattling around in my heart.

There is this innocent, necessary, and healthy stage of mourning that is also so terribly cruel: the …

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Tue 14 November 2023

Content Warning: This post deals with the death of a pet and mourning, and approaches things from a Christian viewpoint.

Content Warning, part 2: This post went into far greater detail about the events leading up to my cat's passing than I initially intended, so if you're mourning a loved …

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Tags: Christianity   Content Warning   Life   Loss   Non-technical post   WritingMonth  

Sat 11 November 2023

Content warning: This post deals with loss

Well, one month later.
One month ago, I said goodbye to my furry best friend.
I've thought about him every day, several times a day.
Nearly every day, I find myself thinking,

"Well, I've got time, I can stop by the house and …

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