How did The Ahnung Way come to be?
Tapestry of Grief
It’s September 14th, 2006. I’m at my veterinarian’s office as the dreaded words come out of his mouth, “she may have cancer – cancer of the spleen.” I look at Shen, my 11-year-old collie/shepherd mix. She looks healthy, vibrant even. How could she possibly have cancer? Over the past month she has had occasional episodes of…
Wisdom, Dreams and Spirits
I am reading and writing more these days. And part of my reading has been returning to some of my old writings and journals. I found the following from January 4, 2023. Wisdom. I read the following from “The Web has no Weaver” right before I fell asleep last night: “Wisdom is not certainty or…
Grief’s Invitation: A Poem for Mister
On Christmas Day I find myself missing my boy Mister. He arrived in my life as a puppy. I was supposed to just foster him and place him up for adoption. I ‘failed’. In the animal welfare world the term you hear is ‘foster failure’, a term of endearment – when you end up adopting…
Ahnung Way 