Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Friday at the cabin we scattered the ashes of our dog who died sixteen years ago. His ashes have been in the cabin all those years, because he loved the cabin and fetching tennis balls in the lake and just being there with us. We flung them behind the cabin and I chanted and my husband said some words. Our younger son brought his dog's ashes up and we then walked to the lake and scattered his ashes. He died when our grandson was a new baby, and they've kept the ashes with them, but felt, as they are now moving out of state, that as he loved being at the cabin with them he would like to be part of the lake. And they will return and when they are swimming or canoeing he will be all around them. It felt healing to all of us, and then the next day we had the news of Biden's win, and it felt as if some of our sorrow of the last year lifted a bit. My husband and I have decided to scatter our other two dogs ashes in our back yard, which they loved better than the cabin. Still to come: scattering my brother's ashes after his death five years ago, and scattering part of our daughter's ashes next summer, when hopefully we can all be together. I do believe we are all one organism and completely and forever interconnected. I've always felt that way, since I was a child. It is comforting, but to me it is truth as well.