As most of you already know, I had to say goodbye to my furry pal, Sage last weekend.
Well, I get her ashes back sometime next week, and I have to come up with something to have ingraved on the little gold plaque that is on the urn.
There isn't alot of space, and I really don't know what to put other than "Sage 1995-2005".
We have so many brilliant people here at KW, and I was hoping that together we could come up with something that would be fitting ... bearing in mind that she was an amazing friend/companion/pooch and that I am limited for space on this little plaque.
Any suggestions? Your help is deeply appreciated.
-- I've learnt everything I need to know about life just by listening to RUSH --
M-D, just a thought, and obviously this is up to you, but I went through the same thing when my dog died last year. I had him cremated, and still have his ashes in the generic cardboard box. We had considered getting a fancy box and keeping him with us in the house, but.....
He loved being outside. When the weather was nice, he'd stay out and bask in the sun, even when we came in. We also decided that we had enough great memories of him that we didn't need a constant reminder, in the form of box and ashes, that he was gone. We also recognize that that's not him in the box. It's the remains of his body, it's not his soul, his spirit, or his love.
When the weather turns better, we will pick a nice day, take the box outside, and spread his ashes around the yard. It's where he'd want to be.
Just something to consider.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Well, we lost our cat Thor the day after New Year, and we picked a nice corner of the garden, buried him, and then built a fernery over him with a shadecloth canopy, and chip bark to stop the weeds. In the middle of the ferns is a wrought iron bird bath with a gorgeous statue of a cat in the middle. It looks beautiful, peaceful and shady. We call it 'Thor's Garden'. Then we cried heaps.
"...if you want to be any more refined, you'd have to be dead. There's nothing more dignified than a mummy..." Pride and Prejudice.
An acquaintance's old horse was once described as "Pegasus in a light brown wrapper," so perhaps something in that vein? A wonderful quality made more precious because it wasn't flaunted.... Just tossing out an idea. It's more difficult to do with limited space, though.
Hmmm... I don't know if this is over the top or not, but what about a TCTC-inspired phrase with a different connotation? Maybe:
Sage 1995-2005
She was True
"We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard... and too damn cheap." - Kurt Vonnegut
"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall
