maddoxies
07-05-2007, 07:55 PM
My sister and I are cleaning out our mother's home. It is really my childhood home, my older sister was only there for 6 months before she got married. I was there from age 8 to adulthood.
We were cleaning out my dad's workshop area and came across a dusty, square package wrapped in plastic on the back of a shelf. I opened it and my eyes welled up. Lovingly packed away were my budgie's toys and things. Now, Corky has been gone for 25+ years (burried in the flower bed); but his things looked so poignant, packed away with such care. I guess it was the childhood memory that got to me, but my sister was surprised by the emotion it stirred up in me.
And I must say that I was caught by surprise too at how it got to me. we were not a "picture" family, I don't have one photo of him; just my memories of him playing catch with me and his amazing vocabulary.
We have lost a number of fur babies here recently, and I just wanted to share that our beloved little friends may be gone for a long time, but every once in a while, the pain of their loss will surface, even 25+ years later. They are gone, but they never really leave us. :candle:
We were cleaning out my dad's workshop area and came across a dusty, square package wrapped in plastic on the back of a shelf. I opened it and my eyes welled up. Lovingly packed away were my budgie's toys and things. Now, Corky has been gone for 25+ years (burried in the flower bed); but his things looked so poignant, packed away with such care. I guess it was the childhood memory that got to me, but my sister was surprised by the emotion it stirred up in me.
And I must say that I was caught by surprise too at how it got to me. we were not a "picture" family, I don't have one photo of him; just my memories of him playing catch with me and his amazing vocabulary.
We have lost a number of fur babies here recently, and I just wanted to share that our beloved little friends may be gone for a long time, but every once in a while, the pain of their loss will surface, even 25+ years later. They are gone, but they never really leave us. :candle: