(Bild via Pinterest)
Meine Lieben, es dauert nicht mehr lange und ich werde Mama eines kleinen, süssen Vierbeiners. Deshalb studiere ich schon jetzt wie ein Streber Erziehungsbücher und Ernährungs- und Pflegeratgeber für Hunde. In einem meiner Bände bin ich über diesen berührenden Text über das Loslassen gestolpert. Er zeigt, wie sehr der Tod zum Leben gehört... schön.
Saying Good-bye
The evening wore on, the music from the radio drifting out and enveloping us all. And with each moment, my wife and I could see that the small black kitten she held in her lap was edging even closer to death. Only a week before, we had adopted her from the animal shelter clinic where I had twice saved her life - first from the ravages of parasites, and then from the institutional procedures that required unadopted strays to be put to sleep after a certain period.
But now further postponing seemed impossible. I had done what I knw how to do and yet Miracle, as we'd dubbed her on account of her heroic, though brief, rebound, was surely on her way out.
(Lest weiter nach dem Break)
