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+title: "Personal: One Important Little Loss"
+date: 2024-08-07 07:00:00 -0400
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+**Summary:** I had the terrible privilege of scheduling gentle in-home euthanasia for a cat I rescued back in my Dallas days yesterday. She was amazing in every way an animal companion can be.
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+### Dedication To Helen
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+I got her from a former colleague back at Glazer's Family of Companies before Southern bought the outfit. Michelle. When we got "Princess Helen Sophia" as named, she was timid, fearful, not used to being around people. Over the years she became the alpha tiger, fearless and adaptable to all sorts of things, almost eerily able to learn new behaviors and ways of communicating.
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+She left my life, very loved, with my gratitude for having been with us for these 15 or so years.
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+I'm not traditionally religious, I am in tune with our brevity though, and the idea that energy is never destroyed, it only transforms. This was my way of honoring our time together last night with candles in front of her favorite pot of grass I grow regularly for my three, now two, cats.
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+> Three candles dressed in catnip, one sister, two brothers, an urban lawn in a pot, one home, a family
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+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tZzheI_VUpY" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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+![Candles For Helen]({{ site.url }}{{ site.baseurl }}/images/PXL_20240806_235922218.jpg)