Honey—2007-2021
This week, Mike Cheney helped me dig a grave for my mom’s 14-year-old dog, Honey, her most loving dog who slept on her bed every night for 14 years. It was hard going; we’ve buried a lot of animals over the years and we’re running out of room (archaeologists of the future will ponder) and we had to jackhammer into solid rock on the edge of our pet cemetery.
When we finished, we put her in the grave wrapped in a quilt and said goodbye and covered her over...and her time, physically here with us officially came to an end.
The world always feels so empty when we lose the people and animals that have given so much meaning and value to our lives. We lose not only our present but mourn the loss of an entire future, at least one more day that we envisioned with that person or animal friend in it.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF PAULA LABROT Honey was my mom’s most loving dog.