I wanted to see Luna again, but it wasn't to be.
She went towards the moon.
Thursday morning I went to work...
It really was not like any other day...I went to work knowing that she would pass anytime soon...that our stunningly beautiful and sweet dog was very near the end of her life.
Loren called me mid morning and said Luna's breathing was changing, and that her eyes were getting distant. I left work straight away...crying all the way. I told Loren she should go on and do her morning meditation and say what she always says to get Luna to be still...
Everybody lie down
On Rene Levesque boulevard, the Blue Nun's building was bathed in rich golden spring sunlight, with my eyes I followed the lines of the building right up it's steeple and then off into the sky, past the whispy clouds and on to the shining full moon.
The leap from steeple to celestial body I thought, must be like the spirit leaving the body.
Within a minute my cell phone rang...
Loren said "Say good-bye to Luna, she has just gone"
Good-bye baby Luna, thank you for your beauty.
Even though she was around eight years old we still called her baby.
My heart was wide open, the world was diferent now. Our dog had an appointment with February's full moon.
I got home and held on to Loren and we sobbed. Then I went to see Luna...I laid down with her. She was in the same spot where just hours ago we were spooning, where she spent her long night of the soul. Where she had blessed my head and feet and heart.
I gently pet her soft fur and traced along her familiar shape, her body still warm.
Good-bye baby Luna...
We placed her on a blanket and put flowers in front, at her head. Whenever we have flowers in the house, Luna would stretch out on the floor and point her nose at them. She had done it this past weekend with the ameryllis in the sun.
We then took pictures of her ears, and her nose, and her paws and fur. Her collar which I had taken off the night before was at her backside and the flowers at her front. Loren put the little bowl of yoghurt Luna was too weak to eat the previous night near the flowers.
Luna loved yoghurt
Loren and I cried and cried...
She told me how Luna passed. Loren was sitting for meditation...everybody lie down...and she was listening to Lunas breathing...counting her breaths as they slowed down. Part way through Loren's meditatin Luna took two deep long inhalations, each time stretching her legs out straing and spreading her paws, lifting her head and straightening her tail...Loren couldn't hear any more breathing...and she said,
God bless you Luna...
Then Luna sort of shocked Loren, as she took an unexpected third and final inhale strecthing as before...and then Luna exhaled her last breath in this world. She had an appointment with the moon.
Loren and I loaded the photos onto the computer. There was a magnificent surprise in store for me. In the first image Luna's head was kind of upright. I recognised in an instant that it was taken while Luna was still alive...and it touched me profoundly. Loren said, "This is the last picture of her before she died."
It was indeed the most beautiful gift I have ever been graced with.
It was my chance to see Luna alive one more time...
Good-bye baby Luna
