Dearest Friends,
My apologies for not writing since my last update early Wednesday and for not yet replying to each and all of you for your condolences, support , prayers, candles and solace and, yes, sharing in the shock during the devastating time of Sootie's sudden passing forward to her next life.
Your love and support helps keep us going and bolsters her gentle passage into the great beyond soft and sweet. Thank you all with all of my being.
Yesterday Steve and I brought Sootie to our vet not only to make the cremation arrangements but also so that they, who have known and loved Sootie since first meeting her and her sisters when they were barely six months old, could be with her. In that quiet time during which we all shared many memories of Sootie, Steve and I arrived at an epitaph for her brass plaque:
Citizen Sootie
Our sweet stalwart muse
April 15,2000 - December 27, 2016
The arrangements for a locket also are in the works. Thank you, Wendy (
@Wendy&Neko) for your guidance.
Last night a session with our AC (animal communicator), as we always do at such times and as we have done, since Sootie and her sisters were kittens, whenever one or another or all are in crisis or need of extra support. Although I had said nothing to her or anyone else in recent weeks and days about my increasing silent feeling that Sootie was readying herself to leave her body, such seems to have been the case. She felt no pain or suffering in spite of those physical moments that were so sudden, fast and horrific for me to see and not be able to bring her out of.
Sootie is in the fullness of her soft, wise and earthy-regal being and with joyful contentment for her life.
We are on a beginning of re balancing our 'keels' yet again and so soon after Bo's travel on sunrise sunbeams to spirit. The void is vast and very different from that left by Bo and other family members who have gone ahead before Bo and Sootie. Sootie's life long imprint will be with us always.
The upstairs cats barely ate yesterday and began to eat again this morning. Though Bella is having the hardest time. She is bereft and I sense that for her mealtimes are nothing without her devoted friend Sootie nearby. So I am keeping extra watch and company with her and Azalea, who is now the eldest and the only one remaining of the original complement of so many years. Dancer has taken to keep me company during my slow ascents up the stairs at mealtimes. She is more quiet about it now, and brushes my arm when I crumble in tears seeing that Sootie is not at the stair landing to greet and spur me up the rest of the way.
With all our love, thanks, healing vines and 'til soon,
Sina, Steve (his birthday is today), Sootie's tribe and Sootie and Bo in Spirits.
and own note to the melody...
