When Pets Depart…

In Blackwater Woods

By Mary Oliver

Look, the trees

are turning

their own bodies

into pillars of light,

are giving off the rich

fragrance of cinnamon

and fulfillment,

the long tapers

of cattails

are bursting and floating away over

the blue shoulders of the ponds,

and every pond,

no matter what its name is,

is nameless now.

Every year

everything

I have ever learned

in my lifetime

leads back to this: the fires

and the black river of loss

whose other side is salvation,

whose meaning

none of us will ever know.

To live in this world

you must be able

to do three things:

to love what is mortal;

to hold it against your bones knowing

your own life depends on it;

and, when the time comes to let it go,

to let it go.

Sunday, May 12^th

9:30am – 11:30am PST

Live on Zoom

Cost: Suggested donation $45

We will embark on a drum journey to meet the Goddess Artemis guardian of the animal kingdom to learn more about the animal life death cycle and take a journey to a special place in non-ordinary reality to engage with the beloved pets who have passed.

Please submit your donation using one of the payment methods below to reserve your spot. Details including the Zoom link will be emailed to those who have RSVP’d the day before we gather. Zoom will be set up to have the video turned off upon entry should you wish to be off-screen.

Paypal friends and family theyewtree@gmail.com

Venmo gift option @hearthoftheheart (phone verification # 6330)

Snail Mail Heather O’Connell PO Box 483 Albion, CA 95410

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