Death is a breath away
I said to my soul Be still And wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing And wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing There is yet faith But the faith and the hope and the love Are all in the waiting And do not think For you are not ready for thought So the darkness shall be the light And the stillness The dancing T.S Eliot |
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| We understand how you are feeling. Joan and I love our Jake and still miss him after 2 years. We wrote a page honoring his life and a few of our best memories of him here:
http://www.oes.org/html/jake.html We were devastated by his loss, but time has indeed softened the blow. Please know we (Joan, me and the rest of the oes.org family) are here to listen if you'd like to chat about it. We understand. |
| Ron.
Thank you for your warm response- it was very very much appreciated. I have actually been into your website (I have been an OES-lurker here for a while) and I can feel and hear your grief and loss across the ocean. It is obvious beyond words that Jack was loved by the biggest of hearts and that he was very lucky to be in the caring arms of you and Joan and that you also had the blessing of a very special dog; Jacks wonderful personality definitely jumps out from the screen. And your website give me lots of comfort in my grief so I am most grateful for finding this forum and your website. It is wonderful to read about so many caring soul that loves OES when you feel so alone as I in the land of missing the most precious there is. Love from me (english is not my native tounge so excuse me if there is something strange) |
| I have to go to bed since it is very late here in Sweden. But I just want to add this link with wonderful pictures of OES. I go here to cry and laugh when my heart needs a big dose of the wonderful energy of the Old english sheepdog which I miss so much now when in griefland. It is a danish site and you may have seen it before. Here it is: http://home11.inet.tele.dk/blueber/NytEng.html
Love from me |
| It's hard not to love this page, too!
http://home11.inet.tele.dk/blueber/HvalpEng.html Puppies! |
| My heart goes out to you. We lost our oldest female and youngest male this year within weeks of each other and I thought I would never get over the pain. I was lucky enough to have two others to care for and for them to care for me. We recently adopted a 7 year old girl and back to 3. I'm keeping my eyes open for a little boy so we'll have our "Quartet" back. I don't know what I would do if I lost a one and only. I can't imagine how awful it must be. Emma, our oldest girl, was the "Boss"! She'd been with us for 11 years, was totally blind, had bad hips and she completely ran my life! LOL!! I had no idea that this was the case until she was gone! When you think about it....having someone tell you when to get up, when to go to bed, when to feed them, when to give them a treat, when to go for a ride in the car daily for 11 years...you're a bit lost when the "Boss" is gone!
After all these months, I still hear them and not a day goes by that I don't think about them...but the pain lessens and the happy times and the funny times are remembered fondly. I certainly hope this is true for you as well! Here are my memorial pages to my two: http://www.wigglebottom.com/Emma.html http://www.wigglebottom.com/Steed.html This forum is WONDERFUL and a thanks to Ron for such a great job! Cathy |
| Wow Cathy!
You really have captured the wonderful playing wisdomenergy of the OES by drawing them with both words and and with a brush! Your paintings (and things) are amazing and wonderful and I fell in love with them right away. If I were a billionarie I would buy christmascards from you and send one to every person in the world because I think this world would be a better place if everyone had there own OES  
The pages for Emma and Steed is so wonderful and holds so much love and grief and I thank you for putting them there because it helps me a lot. Emma and Steed went right into the deepest of my heart and the whole of me felt like a goosebump and I also felt such immediate sisterhood with you because you talk about and with your dogs in the way I do. And then you gave me some big warm laughs as in "you're a bit lost when the "Boss" is gone!" and Steed- The Bunny is unbeliavable!
Thank you from me. |
| Ps.
It means so much to me to have found this forum because most of the time I just cry and cry and cry and then I go into laugh my heck of because I get reminded of all the wonderful things we have done and then I watch the "coffin" (urn?) that contains his ashes and I cannot believe that such a happy and with energy overflowing Love suddenly isn't here in this dimension anymore. God, I miss him beyond words. Me |
| Hi Fnissa,
I am so very sorry to hear about the loss of your friend and can relate as I too lost my Shaggy a few months ago. I couldn't talk about her at the time but later related some funny/happy/ sad memories of her. This is the right place to talk about her in time to come to share memories of your beloved dog. Right now you're grieving so it may be difficult to do at this time, but as time passes I would love to hear of your memories. I also got a chance to see the site you posted and enjoyed it so much. Thanks. You're in my thoughts at this time and hugs to you. Cathy- Please see Lucy/Thumpers new message on rescuing a sheepdog as she just rescued one and is looking for a good home for him. As with the passing of Shaggy and Tsung Tsung allowed myself, Roy and Elby to come across Panda aka Robin and eventually have him into my home - so may your sheepie's act as angels in allowing the rescue of one of their own. |
| Hi,
You are so right about being able to talk about our buddies here....This is the first time I've been able to look at the pages I did for Emma and Steed without sobbing.....teared up, but no longer sobbing. My husband and I were laughing this weekend as our Ashley does stuff that is SO like Emma and Steed! Emma was blind, but she would sit on the couch and stare out the window like she was "on guard" and then start barking at nothing! : ) Ashley does the same thing...but she can see perfectly well! It could be a leaf blowing across the lawn or absolutely nothing...but she does it! She also has a tilt to her head (Steed was completely deaf BTW) that Steed would do and if you didn't know he was deaf, you'd think he was listening intently and hanging on your every word! If I believed in reincarnation, I'd think those two somehow managed to "merge" into Ashley! I posted to Lucy/Thumper again with the OESRNSE info offer if she needs it. She's doing a good job!! It is SO hard to foster. You get so attached, but hopefully she'll be able to keep in close contact with new families and have a HUGE extended sheepdog family before she knows it!! Thank you! Cathy |
| Fnissa, Cathy, Ron, Marianne, and everyone who has ever lost a beloved sheepie:
This forum is truly a godsend when you need it. It gets you through your grief and boosts your spirits. It teaches you things you never knew and answers questions no one else can seem to answer. But the pain never totally goes away. It's been 10 years since we lost our first sheepie, Buford, and I still cry when I think of that last trip to the vet. He was our firstborn (came before our son), he was my very first dog ever, and he was mama's boy. He gave so much unconditional love and left so many wonderful memories. Maybe I shouldn't say that the pain never totally goes away, as it sounds so depressing. A more positive way to say it would be that they live in your heart forever. I wish you comfort and peace. Welcome to the forum! Chris |
| Im so sorry for your losses.ready all the pages everyone made for their special sheepie has me tearing up,but as tears run down my face I look over at my big happy goofy Mickey I have to laugh thinking of all the silly things he does,and Im thinking of ALL the silly things your beloved sheepies must have done through the years.We are all truely blessed to have these wonderful animals in our life. Best wishes for all of you |
| I feel so very very fragile, sad, vulnerable, tired/drained; in full grief and I am leaving tomorrow to a hospital due to my very very nice doctor calling me up saying; Hey, don't you need us to take care of you for a while when being in such crisis?!
So I will go there tomorrow and not knowing yet how long I will stay and not knowing how eager the doctors/nurses are to borrow me theire computers.. I may not write in this thread for a little while. I just want to say that all of you, sharing with your own pain, grief and happiness of your beloved dogs have helped me sooo much and I am soo happy to be among OES-friends who knows how wonderful they are.
Take very much care and see you later on. Me |
| Fnissa,
I am so sorry to hear of your loss. It is devastating to lose a best friend/love puppy/sweet baby dog. I am glad to hear that you are taking care of yourself and remember that we are thinking about you at this sad time. |
| Fnissa,
We're sorry for you loss. Our hearths and prayers go along our best wishes for you. Dani, Saul, Lennon and Sofa. |
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