Sorry to hear Rusty has gone but great to read your blog on the whole experience.

I’m a big cat fan myself and I have always wondered about their way of being along with all animals for that matter. If ever we need a lesson in living in the now and peace, they are great teachers. All they ask is that you treat them like a king or queen for 16 or so years hehe. And boy most of us do.

I like how you wrote there about the heart opening when experiencing a death. We also get tastes of it without experiencing death though. A great place to observe is the departure lounge at the airport. To a lesser degree of course but that same feeling. We all mingle and smile, cry, hug etc. Our body language differs and there is usually a subtle tell tail sign in even the hardest of people. Have a watch one day, get present to the love.

The connection between ourselves and loved ones (including animals) is much more present in times of death or long distance separation than we are together. Both hearts connect between loved ones across different continents, we feel it and we know the other feels it too. No other communication is really needed when we trust it. But in the event of a death your heart connects again to somewhere else where the essence of the person or pet now resides. A connection to within us or externally? I don’t know. Probably both. Either way, its still a connection.

Its one of those exciting experiences of being human that science cannot measure yet. And when science does achieve this we will still know that we never needed the answer anyway.

I hope you and John are well.