what i think i can say with all confidence is that the moment of Death is Gentle. We are taken back by What gave us.
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59 responses to “Old Cowboy is Gone”
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yes. just like that. soft. small. simple. just like that…
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a soft, quiet passing. so many stories and memories remain.
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yes.
the stories, the memories, they Inform humanity, one by one.
What it is to Be, however it is we Be and what it is to Leave
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Robert has gone onto other trails now and you gave him the very thing that you wished you could give him to “free his heart a little” – you made it possible for him to leave as he wished, from his home. Dear OCB, dear You for staying by his side through the whole of it…love and condolences.
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Fly Free Old Cowboy
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oh Grace ….
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Gentle … what a gift was given and received
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Ah…softly…Hug to you. Buddhist, Venerable Tarpa shares the poem “When Death Comes” by Mary Oliver. She highlights her favourite line from the poem and elaborates on how it helps her to get some feeling of the “mere I,” and how it is different from the puffed-up conception of an inherently existent self. https://youtu.be/pa-VIYKUfR0
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Oh Grace, I have goose bumps ,an aooh came from my mouth when I read your words..take care, all will be well now ,thinking of you
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Keeping you both in my heart tonight, Grace, very thankful for the gentle going and for your steadfast heart.
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peace…to him, to you, to all of us.
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Our hearts are all touched. Much love, Cindy
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Well done, OCB….well done, Grace. sending love
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dear grace —
i don’t know what to say–
but i need to say something —
if only
that i don’t know what
to say
your own life ….
now changed
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I wonder if he knew how many of us have been holding our breath, urging him on, cheering his stubborn old ass across the finish line.
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I also don’t have words but lots of thoughts going to both of you
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Here reading, sending thoughts.
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The Old Cowboy met the Buddha through Grace
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oh Deb that is wonderful 🙂 xo
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He was lucky to have you.
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rest in peace old cowboy.
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Thinking much of you both today. You gave a wonderful gift, Grace.
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material changing
release missing custom
nothing as usual a new start
a lot of words toughts if
a love one go back to
the otherside of life/live
love is all a round
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Aah ..ooh. Journey well OCB, journey well Grace. love
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oh exactly..good to smile right here..right now ..gentle day grace
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holding
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I am feeling the flat, blank absence of a man I never met, except through you. Peace be upon you both.
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((( Grace ))) I’m so glad you made it back to windthread before.
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just one simple line
but a world coming to an endLikeLike
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Blessings…Keeping you in my thoughts…
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yes. in his own home. We DID it. A natural death, in his own
home. Yes. We did it. Even tho he became so afraid at the end.,
we Did it. and it was right and good.LikeLike
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fly free…the Spirit, fly free
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for sure now, i know, it’s Gentle
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so mutual, yes
for both of usLikeLike
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beauty FULL Mary Oliver, just so so incredibly BEAUTY Full
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all IS well, it is. The gentleness, the softness, it IS and
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steadfastness. i think much of this…the steadfastness on both
our parts…the steadfastness of his Need, the response of
Steadfastness in response…we were parts of the Same, he and ILikeLike
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peace. letting go. peace. to know this ahead…..
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this is good then, that we Learn from eachother, and
know better how to just goLikeLike
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i loved reading that this morning…Well done
yes. Well Done, both of us. So MUCH, yes, Well Done.LikeLike
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yes. Learned, i am learned. He taught me.
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oh so a huge SMILE….cheering him….yes…cheering him, i wish he might have known
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thoughts are solid and good offerings
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thank you, Much….
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we meet the Buddha daily, don’t we……………
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today i am thinking i was Lucky to have had him
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yes. bless him, his old skeletal self. He was barely there
yesterday, like really, barely there. Washing him was
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helen, i am receiving a wonderful gift…it is ongoing….
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surrender
you have the word
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yes…him….his journey….whatever it is….my love is with him
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tenderness
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i am too. Our Timing with so much has been incredible, this
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and now what. yes. very much.
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elizabeth, thank you. we rest there, like a cradle, we
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Oh my. They linger and linger. When they go it’s a shock, even though you were expecting it. Take care honey.
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today too, Thursday, the flat blank absence
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he did.
linger.
There was really nothing at all left of him but WILL. and i look at that, Will…what IS it? really. What is it? the Will to remain????
he was nothing.
nothing but skin on bones and WillLikeLike
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He followed the moon,
that night was filled
with shooting stars too
mosey on OCB
your body will rest
and then rejoin the stars.
Thank you Grace
for being
the breeze that made his passing light
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