Translate

Monday, August 14, 2017

Forget to suffer ...let the pain in to remember the joy!

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel N. 5, of course"
        I met with Paul this week, he just lost Reggie. I was fortunate to share a moment of deep lose with him because it reminded me of the joy I had in Tyche. I was glad to feel the suffering gone, no "why me? or how could this have happened to me?", but the memory of the pain was just enough to allow me to remember the joy it was to have her. I love this picture, this is so her, so absolutely her own dog. Sure that she deserved every praise, and every stroke. It makes me smile to watch this coy little dog who pranced around the world full of herself, ready to take on every minute of experience life would give her. My heart of filled with the joy of having walked her, talked to her, put on her red coat and her read boots so she could continue her little dance during snow storms. She was all dog, and hated the coat, even when she come to welcome it, but she did love her boots. I was so happy to be able to share again these memories even when they brought back the rest. I am so happy that I can remember the joy now, along with that pain.
        I know this road that aways us every time we connect with our dogs is a hard one. Reggie, Rosie, Jessie, Madison, Blueberry, Poopy, Hannibal ... I remember all of these dogs, and if there is an  afterlife, which I hope for, I would love to see them all again. And how can their not be one? I can understand a universe without the soul of Tyche!!

Sunday, July 3, 2016

One year and one day ... and I let go!!

I was always afraid that "letting go" meant you stopped loving and that "letting in" was pushing all the love you already had out. Why did I feel that letting life flow through you would make you one of the undead? I was afraid of becoming a zombie with a deadly smile ready to eat other people's brains just to get a peek at life.  Yesterday I walked endlessly through DC, and with every step I took I felt all the steps I had already taken. Walking with Darshan, I felt Tyche walking with us. Darshan run down a path digging her nose into grass and rocks, Tyche was right next to her. Tyche jumped up a fallen tree trunk, Darshan jumped right after her, and they both lapped water side by side. Everything about our 30,000 step walk reminded me of how different Tyche and Darshan are.

We started at the Bishop's garden at 5:30 in the morning (Darshan needed out badly).  Puppy still, has yet to learn "we do not pee inside," in her DC home; granted her 24 hour trip from Buenos Aires to Newark might have left her a bit more confused than I realized. Tyche had the benefit of starting house training earlier and, princess that she was, she had her own little bathroom in my Buenos Aires apartment balcony, so there is that big difference! To boot, Tyche viajó en vuelo directo (uno que lamentablemente ya no existe:(! A Tyche jamás le interesaron otros perros, Darshan se desvive por jugar con cualquier perro que se le acerca amistosamente. Corre en círculos buscando que la sigan y cuando no lo logra empuja a perros más grandes que ella con la nariz para que la noten. Es tan lindo verla correr. Tyche corría pero no en círculos. Cada vez que veo a Darshan hacer algo que Tyche había hecho mil veces antes ó hacer algo que Tyche nunca hizo, no me siento triste. I felt no sadness, that was odd! Sadness is gone as I understood they were both walking side-by-side!

In the picture at the Bishop´s garden, Darshan seems illuminated by some heavenly rays, I choose to believe that is Tyche accepting another dog in our life, she that was so possessive and yet she taught me how to let go and make space for more love.



Thursday, February 18, 2016

Su Darshan Kriya "Darshan"

This is Darshan. She was not what I wanted, but she sure was what I needed!! I am starting to understand so much about letting go, about suffering and pain, and about not clinging on to emotions, about just breathing. I still miss Tyche, and the pain is not gone, but I don´t want to be sad. I want to be happy about the life I had with Tyche. I still want to cry, but there will be a day in which the experience will be joyful. It wont be about having lost her, but about having had the chance to be with her. Darshan is so different, and that is great, she is an adventure. I don´t remember Tyche´s puppyhood much now. She did her share of mischief, but she was an easy puppy. Darshan is a puppy that will benefit from all I learned from Tyche, she is truly fortunate! Hay diferencias entre Darshan y Tyche que no puedo empezar a describir, pero de pronto veo en ella una expresión, una mirada que me la recuerda. Ese mirar hacia arriba sabiendo que el mundo es simple y "como no te das cuenta pedazo de papanata" ... una mirada tan Tyche. Estoy aprendiendo mucho!! El zen de tener un perro:)

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Sobre las fotos


This is one of my favorite photos of Tyche. It is not the best one of her, nor is it the best quality. Somebody said to me, about the video I made, that not all of them were the best pictures of Tyche. It might have been meant as a kindness, as if any picture could capture her 'true beauty.' There is nothing that can do that except herself, but in her absence I love this picture. Captura una expresión que es solamente de ella, que nadie más podria hacer. Captura algo en los ojos achinados que me la recuerda de una manera que ninguna de las otras cientos de fotos que tengo de ella lo hace. De hecho ahora siento que todas las fotos que tengo de Tyche son las mejores, pero sé bien que ninguna de esas fotos es ella.

Friday, August 14, 2015

Saying goodbye

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh.


It was hard to come back to Baltimore knowing there was no one that would be really and openly happy to see me return. It was hard to see her ashes in that little box they sent me, even when it is quite beautiful. Estoy tratando de evitar los eufemismos y enfrentar la muerte de frente, y en esto también está Tyche. She was the best! And in my heart of hearts she is still all around me. 



Thursday, July 30, 2015

My Browned Eyed Girl

"The more I know about people, the better I like my dogs." -- Mark Twain. No, I don't quite think that is what my dog taught me, but I do love her.

En un par de dias va a ser un mes y todavía me parece que recién pasó, pero estoy empezando a sentir que puedo celebrar la vida que tuvimos juntas. Encontré esta foto de ella en una agenda que use en el 2004 como diario (En aquel momento no sabía de quien era la cita, gracias a google pude averiguar de quién era). Pero después de una vida con Tyche estoy y no estoy de acuerdo con Twain. La quise a Tyche profundamente porque era todo perro, y sabía dejarse querer sin confundirse para nada acerca de quién era. Soportaba con paciencia mis confusiones, pero ella era ella. Aquí está a los dos años en el departamento de Belgrano recién empezando nuestra vida junta y ya tenía claro que era el centro de mi mundo. Sabía posar cuando quería. Ella que se comía todo sin respirar, aquí hace una pausa para la foto:) Tan Tyche!!

I do want to celebrate her life, she can never be gone, not really. There she is My Browned Eyed Girl ready for ever walking in the many worlds she walked, barking and making a pest of herself. She will always be in the universe.


Thursday, July 23, 2015

Suffering

"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional" Buddhist say.

¿Lo que siento es dolor o sufrimiento? Esta mañana me desperté con un quejido, como esos que Tyche daba cuando yo, descuidada, la pisaba sin darme cuenta (O ella se metía justo entre las patas sin tener en cuenta que uno no la veía, porque como no la ibas a ver). Sentí en ese momento el horror de mi estúpido sufrimiento. "Quedarme en el agujero de la pérdida no es honrarla," pensé medio dormida. "No puedo seguir solo en el dolor de la pérdida, tengo que celebrar todos los momentos que hemos pasado juntas." Todavía con los ojos cerrados la vi corriendo por los caminos de Rock Creek, ladrando cuando nos veía nadar en la pileta de Terrero, tirándose de espalda en el pasto recién cortado. Todos los momentos como un montaje interminable. Recuerdo una de las primeras veces que la perdí caminando por Rock Creek. Desesperada yo la buscaba, la llamaba y Tyche no aparecía por ningún lado. Recuerdo que empecé a temblar de terror y hasta a llorar desconsolada, ¿no podía haberla perdido? ¿cómo podía ser tan irresponsable? Casi media hora después (tal vez no fue tanto, pero yo sentí que fue un tiempo interminable) aparece como si nada, la lengua afuera  y con una panza digna de la boa que se había comido el elefante en El Principito. Los ojos marrones le brillaban de esa felicidad de su panza más que llena. La llevé a casa aterrada de lo que habría comido. Nunca durmió tan feliz mi perra, tan llena, en un sopor de la gula mientras yo sufría a su lado pensando si iba a estar bien por la mañana. La imaginé mil veces desde entonces, tan contenta por haber encontrado una hamburguesa entre la maleza que ciertamente no tenía intención de compartir conmigo.

Hoy lloré varias veces, pero su vida es más que mi pérdida y por eso tengo que empezar a recordarla. I will take on the pain, but I will do my best to opt out of suffering. I have to see her as she demands to be seen: Happy, content, belly full and full of love. She does not deserve that I hold on to the pain of not having her besides me.