[Sca-cooks] OT: Goodbye to Murphy

[Sue Clemenger]

Aethelwulf, are you *trying* to make me cry?
--Maire, giving her fur family some love....

bill mayfield wrote:
>

> While I know nether Ranvaig nor Murphy I know the feeling of loss
> he surely has. here is a small reading i run across on occasion
> that brings both tears of sadness and more importantly tears of happiness.
>
>   Aethelwulf
>
>             "Just this side of Heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
>
> When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet
> goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special
> friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food and water
> and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who
> had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt
> or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our
> dreams of days and times gone by.
>
> The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing: they miss
> someone very special to them; who had to be left behind.
>
> They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops
> and looks into the distance. The bright eyes are intent; the eager body
> quivers. Suddenly he begins to break away from the group, flying over the
> green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster. YOU have been spotted,
> and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in
> joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your
> face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into
> the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent
> from your heart.
>
> Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together......."