Dear Elatia,
I am so sorry for your loss. Dear lovely Lucy was so sweet. I look forward to your other postings, I love reading your writing. Sending all best xom
Posted by: Martin Moran | Sep 1, 2008 8:49:10 AM
Oh Elatia! I'm heartbroken. I'm so sorry for your loss. xo
Dearest Elatia,
an old friend once said to me, "there are worse things than losing a dog... but I can't think of what they are"
My sincere condolences and much love to you
JJ
Dear Elatia,
Seventeen years of mutual devotion...I send you my sympathies and love.
Barrie
Posted by: Barrie | Sep 1, 2008 3:58:55 PM
Reading this and looking at Lucy, i'm not sorry. i surely never met her, but it is obvious that you offered her 17 years of happiness—though there must be a big hole in you heart.
So visiting your page this morning does not make me sad, not in the sorry sense anyway. More like grateful that people and pets can give so much to each other. Thanks for the heart-warming…
Posted by: jean-paul | Sep 1, 2008 5:39:52 PM
Elatia, Sorry to hear about Lucy. It's rough losing a best friend. Take care.
Melody
We are so deeply sorry for your loss. We loved seeing Lucy when you came to Los Angeles with her. By some sad and strange coincidence, our darling cat Simba just passed away on August 25, -- from heart failure. We had just celebrated his 13th birthday the week before. I hope there is a pet heaven where they are frolicking together. We send our love and condolences. xo Daisy and family
Posted by: Daisy | Sep 1, 2008 9:35:32 PM
Oh, no! What a huge loss. There's nothing I can say. We are so, so sorry.
Jean & Stu
Posted by: Jean | Sep 2, 2008 11:50:01 AM
Goodbye, dear Lucy. You were wonderful.
Thalassa
Posted by: Thalassa | Sep 3, 2008 11:32:37 AM
I'm so sorry, Elatia.
Posted by: ghostman | Sep 3, 2008 4:26:08 PM
I'll always remember Lucy. She was very fun and sweet at home and also meandering around the reflecting pool of Amor Caritas at Saint-Gaudens in Cornish. My condolences, Holly
Seventeen years and it looks to me that she had lots of friends. Now I have an image of her and I think about that story that you posted last Valentine's Day.
Our animal familiars can work their way into us in ways that no human ever could.They train us as much as we train them. They show us another world and with dogs it's like having access to a wider spectrum of senses.
That old Roman phrase, "Love me. Love my Dog.", always sounded like a challenge to me. The Romans liked to play the tough guy card. Here, there's no challenge at all, that phrase just seems obvious. I wish I could have met her.
Elatia, you have my sympathy.
Pete
Posted by: PeteChapman | Sep 4, 2008 12:24:59 PM
Thank you, everybody -- I really appreciate your taking time to look and write. Lots of you must know precisely how I feel.
Lucy was named for the enigmatic subject of Wordsworth's five Lucy Poems -- the child briefly here, known to few, who stirred the writer as no other being did, who was finally both immortal and implied back into nature, "With rocks, and stones, and trees." No one will ever know what the poet meant by these poems that switch from certitude to doubt, possession to loss, but the speculation about them is entering its third century. On Labor Day, my friend Judith and I wrapped Lucy in a sari the color of grass and sky and buried her in a garden where lavender and sunflowers grow. The exact place is sunny for most of the day -- Judith will transplant a rose bush there, and Lucy will turn into roses, year after year after year.
Thanks again for caring -- it makes such a difference to me.
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My condolences Elatia.
Posted by: Jesse | Sep 1, 2008 12:24:42 AM
Oh, Elatia....
Posted by: JanieM | Sep 1, 2008 1:06:47 AM
I am so sorry, Elatia.
No dog could have been more beloved.
Posted by: Kate | Sep 1, 2008 2:04:06 AM
Sorry for your loss, that can be hard to take.
Posted by: Sean Carroll | Sep 1, 2008 2:10:11 AM
Very sorry, Elatia.
Posted by: Abbas Raza | Sep 1, 2008 2:23:27 AM
Sorry for your loss, of this dog with this dark curious and loving eyes
mica
Posted by: mica hubertus mick | Sep 1, 2008 3:15:09 AM
Dear Elatia, sad news, and I know what a joy Lucy was in your life. I'll miss seeing her with you on the daily rounds. yours, John
Posted by: john Altobello | Sep 1, 2008 3:33:36 AM
Dear Elatia,
So sorry for your loss.
Posted by: dkmyl | Sep 1, 2008 3:45:39 AM
It's a big loss. She is so beautiful. My thoughts are with you Elatia.
Posted by: oliviab | Sep 1, 2008 6:22:43 AM
Dear Elatia,
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Sughra
Posted by: Sughra | Sep 1, 2008 7:54:33 AM
You and she were a team. You must be very bereft.
Posted by: Fanny Howe | Sep 1, 2008 8:14:51 AM
Dear Elatia,
I am so sorry for your loss. Dear lovely Lucy was so sweet. I look forward to your other postings, I love reading your writing. Sending all best xom
Posted by: Martin Moran | Sep 1, 2008 8:49:10 AM
Oh Elatia! I'm heartbroken. I'm so sorry for your loss. xo
Posted by: Kate Vrijmoet | Sep 1, 2008 8:52:15 AM
Dearest Elatia,
an old friend once said to me, "there are worse things than losing a dog... but I can't think of what they are"
My sincere condolences and much love to you
JJ
Posted by: JJ | Sep 1, 2008 9:20:38 AM
Elatia,
What a beautiful picture. I'll always have fond memories of seeing you and Lucy stroll down Huron Ave.
I am so sorry.
Daniele
Posted by: daniele | Sep 1, 2008 10:12:25 AM
Lucy was such a good dog. It won't be the same in the apartment without her.
Posted by: Amy | Sep 1, 2008 10:49:10 AM
I send my condolences, Elatia.
Animal love is powerful. May she rest in peace.
Posted by: Joan R | Sep 1, 2008 12:45:12 PM
Dear Elatia,
I am so saddened by your loss.
The lovely Miss Lucy was a good dog. She will be missed by all who knew her.
Kathleen
Posted by: Kathleen | Sep 1, 2008 1:38:45 PM
Oh, I am so, so sorry. Many sympathies.
Posted by: maryn | Sep 1, 2008 2:13:17 PM
Dear Elatia,
Seventeen years of mutual devotion...I send you my sympathies and love.
Barrie
Posted by: Barrie | Sep 1, 2008 3:58:55 PM
Reading this and looking at Lucy, i'm not sorry. i surely never met her, but it is obvious that you offered her 17 years of happiness—though there must be a big hole in you heart.
So visiting your page this morning does not make me sad, not in the sorry sense anyway. More like grateful that people and pets can give so much to each other. Thanks for the heart-warming…
Posted by: jean-paul | Sep 1, 2008 5:39:52 PM
Elatia, Sorry to hear about Lucy. It's rough losing a best friend. Take care.
Melody
Posted by: Melody | Sep 1, 2008 6:21:03 PM
Dearest Elatia,
We are so deeply sorry for your loss. We loved seeing Lucy when you came to Los Angeles with her. By some sad and strange coincidence, our darling cat Simba just passed away on August 25, -- from heart failure. We had just celebrated his 13th birthday the week before. I hope there is a pet heaven where they are frolicking together. We send our love and condolences. xo Daisy and family
Posted by: Daisy | Sep 1, 2008 9:35:32 PM
Oh, no! What a huge loss. There's nothing I can say. We are so, so sorry.
Jean & Stu
Posted by: Jean | Sep 2, 2008 11:50:01 AM
Goodbye, dear Lucy. You were wonderful.
Thalassa
Posted by: Thalassa | Sep 3, 2008 11:32:37 AM
I'm so sorry, Elatia.
Posted by: ghostman | Sep 3, 2008 4:26:08 PM
I'll always remember Lucy. She was very fun and sweet at home and also meandering around the reflecting pool of Amor Caritas at Saint-Gaudens in Cornish. My condolences, Holly
Posted by: holly | Sep 4, 2008 8:10:22 AM
Seventeen years and it looks to me that she had lots of friends. Now I have an image of her and I think about that story that you posted last Valentine's Day.
Our animal familiars can work their way into us in ways that no human ever could.They train us as much as we train them. They show us another world and with dogs it's like having access to a wider spectrum of senses.
That old Roman phrase, "Love me. Love my Dog.", always sounded like a challenge to me. The Romans liked to play the tough guy card. Here, there's no challenge at all, that phrase just seems obvious. I wish I could have met her.
Elatia, you have my sympathy.
Pete
Posted by: PeteChapman | Sep 4, 2008 12:24:59 PM
Thank you, everybody -- I really appreciate your taking time to look and write. Lots of you must know precisely how I feel.
Lucy was named for the enigmatic subject of Wordsworth's five Lucy Poems -- the child briefly here, known to few, who stirred the writer as no other being did, who was finally both immortal and implied back into nature, "With rocks, and stones, and trees." No one will ever know what the poet meant by these poems that switch from certitude to doubt, possession to loss, but the speculation about them is entering its third century. On Labor Day, my friend Judith and I wrapped Lucy in a sari the color of grass and sky and buried her in a garden where lavender and sunflowers grow. The exact place is sunny for most of the day -- Judith will transplant a rose bush there, and Lucy will turn into roses, year after year after year.
Thanks again for caring -- it makes such a difference to me.
Posted by: Elatia Harris | Sep 5, 2008 1:10:41 AM
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