Yesterday a box arrived for me from Donna at Brynwood Needleworks. This is the surprise that I found inside. I burst into tears when I saw my sweet Bonnie girl's image. We last saw her about three months ago, as you know.
Below is what the back looks like. Guess I shouldn't have laid it on my checked tablecloth. Obviously Donna knew my favorite colors!
To say that I'm immensely touched by Donna's generosity and sweet gesture is a vast understatement.
Here is the note she sent along with the pillow.
I stood there with the pillow in my hands and cried like a baby. The dogs shifted uneasily and whimpered. I wondered: What would I do without my blogging friends? Whatever would I do?
Here it is in its rightful place on the couch in my garden room. Where Bonnie use to accompany me as I sat at my computer.
I don't suppose I'll ever see my Bonnie girl again. My Bonnie Bonita. We're fairly certain that she was taken by a predator when the hotel down the block was going up. And the wild animals in the thick grove of pine trees there then became homeless.
I simply can't write this without crying anew. But I still have my Clyde. My big boy Clyde.
Abi is nervous seeing mama cry. She gets on the couch because that is where my eyes are gazing.
"Hey Ma, you're alright, aren't you?" those eyes ask me.
I'm okay. Just sad that life gives us precious gifts and then inexplicably takes them away. It is the natural pattern of things. But that fact doesn't make the grief any easier to bear.
My sweet Bonnie girl, you gave me such joy. 1998-2010
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