In Memory of Easy

I originally wrote this a couple of months ago when Easy first started showing signs of illness.  Today Easy took her next step, unfolding into the tremendous spirit that she has always been.  She now has the space to truly fly.

Dear Mary,
I never met you but I have come to know you through the most amazing bird.  Your bird, Easy.  She has come into my life and brightened my days in the short time we have known each other.
Easy is silly and funny and full of energy.  Always ready to make me laugh. Always ready to drive me crazy chewing on my necklace an earrings.  Yelling when she wants to come out and flying around to make sure she doesn’t miss anything.  Always trying to get away with eating whatever she has on my shoulder.
Sadly Easy is coming to her own end.  She has congestive heart failure and is getting weaker everyday.  It saddens me that I will not have more time with her but the time we have had had been of such high quality it is as if we have jammed years into these few months.  We have become friends who have known each other for years, for lifetimes.
Mary you raised an incredible little bird.  Her manners are her own but she would never hurt anyone.  Never peck harder than a small pinch to let you know that she did not like what you were doing.  Easy will always step up and give kisses really no matter how she is feeling. 
I have loved watching her eat beans and popcorn, her absolute favorite food out there.  She has tried to hop into the bowl on several occasions.  We have sat together with a dishtowel on my lap to help keep her joyful mess contained.

I cannot thank you enough for the time we have shared and I know that where you are Mary you have a bird ready to see you again.  There is so much that I understand about death and taking next steps but when it all comes to pass it is still hard to make that separation seem truly unreal. 
I don’t know when Easy is going to leave this world but I know that there is a place that will be complete upon her arrival.  I see her fading into all that is whole and one creating a light so beautiful it is hard to focus and sustain.  Knowing that that true beauty is within me (within all of us).
May I be able to participate in this amazing next step with ease and grace and wholeness that has always been part of me and follow Easy’s gentle lead.
Thank you Mary for sharing this precious gift.  I see you happy and complete after a difficult time here.  May I share in your completeness and wholeness.
Love,
Alicia
                   
I received Easy from my friend Lisa who took her in from her terminally ill neighbor, Mary, just a month before she died. That is who the letter is to.  I have had the pleasure of living with Easy for the past 11 months.  She has been there through my transition from a job I had for 10 years and into my first home purchase and move.  Easy has been a part of my readings and healings and has helped me and all of my animals, bringing amusement and fun throughout all of our changes and adjustments.  Easy always lived in the moment.
She died in my hands today and I am glad that she is no longer struggling to breathe. 
All is well now.  xoxo All my Love to you, Easy.

There is no suffering in Love

 There is no suffering in love.  There is no suffering in love.  It seems that statement needs to be repeated each time it is expressed.  There is no suffering in love.  Where do we find that feeling?  How to we experience this idea?  How do we have this truth in our lives?  This is the essence of animal communication to me.  This is what animals.... all animals…are trying to tell us.  Are telling us.  There isn’t any trying involved.  It is the constant frequency they are broadcasting.  What does it take for us to hear that frequency?  Do they need to be lost? Broken? Mean? Abused?  Where is it that we need to see that there is no suffering in love?
2 of my cats are disabled.  One was hit by a car and the other attacked by a dog.  The first, Francy, lost all the nerve function in her face, her ears don’t move, she doesn’t blink and her whiskers don’t move.
The second, Ralfie, lost an eye, lost sight in the other eye and broke her jaw, so her tongue sticks out all the time.  I met them at a time when I felt like they looked. Broken.  When I went to meet them they were considered unadoptable.  Just like me.  When I decided to adopt them in my enthusiasm I asked the adoption coordinator if I needed to do anything to make sure that no one else adopted them before I got back, He laughed and said that no one else was going to take them and not to worry.  I was a puzzled until I remembered that they we were broken. 

They were great contributors to me becoming an animal communicator.  And through all of my training and practice it took years to finally hear how their injuries came about.  How did it all happen?  How did it all go down?  They each answered in the same way at different times.  They both said “I got the call”.  “I was having my life and I knew I had to get to you but I didn’t know how.  Then I got the call that you were ready.  So I found the road and stepped in front of a car because that is how you could see me”, said Francy.  Ralfie told a similar story.  She got the call and found a neighborhood dog and asked for a favor, injure but do not kill.  The dog obliged and Ralfie was brought to Treehouse in a plastic storage container.  I would not have seen her any other way.  She is a beautiful cat and if she were not injured I would have passed her by.  But they found each other and then found me.  They found me 3 weeks after I moved to Chicago.  It was a miracle.
The story of Francy and Ralfie is completely about no suffering in love.  They have not suffered in their injuries, they have loved.  They knew where they were going and chose to love through what others may call hardship or grievous injury. 

I live with these 2 beautiful girls who now show very few signs that there is anything wrong with them but who love with great abandon anyone who comes through the door.  They are my light and truth that there is no suffering in love.  They show me everyday that animals are telling us that all the time. 
There is no suffering in love.

So next time you are out in the world, with people or with animals, as you gaze into thier eyes simply say to yourself there is no suffering in love and see how the world changes.