This is Grief

I wish I were one to create a beautiful memorial movie for my dogs, filled with all my favorite photos of them and a lovely song to accompany the images.

I keep waiting to be inspired to write a meaningful obituary for each of the girls who have left. An obituary that could capture who they were and what they meant. Like the one I wrote for my dad just a little over two years ago.

Maybe that is the problem — the serial losses. The backlog of obituaries from the past few years. The newspaper deadline forced me to action with my dad’s obituary but the rest? The words are frozen in the trauma of loss after loss.

And so while I can’t find the words or the song she deserves — here is the summary of Sparkle’s obituary: She was perfect.

So so perfect.

💔