This week, I saw that a woman posted a comment on something I was reading on Facebook. Her name was Danette Sutton. And I thought that it was like combining Rannette and Dafydd’s names together into one name. Coincidence or confirmation that they are both with me, together now on the other side?
On September 12, 2021, it will be two years that my sweet Cici bug dog will have gone over the rainbow. I’ve been thinking a lot about her especially since about a month or two ago, she startled me awake with a bark, out loud, audible. I was ready to take her for a walk until I realized, oh, wait a minute, her dog body is not here on earth now. It was not a dream (although I have had dreams with her in them). It was the sound of her barking and it woke me up that morning. That week she growled and barked a few more times, three times that week. Why? I kept asking.
Then it happened again after Dafydd passed in June. I was asking for him to GIVE ME A SIGN and Cici stepped up, pawed up, barked at me again. Maybe he was busy and she wanted to let me know they are all with me.
I had numerous dreams right after Cici passed, heard her bark in my van one morning, saw another dog walking by that looked like her wearing a sweater just like hers and heard her growl at me at CVS when I was sitting waiting for the scooter to charge up. I was in the dog food aisle.
This week I received a couple of emails from people who have dogs that need homes. One is a cute little terrier boy who likes to show off his belly like my Cici girl did.
My dog travel blog Have Dog Blog Will Travel, has lots of photos of tales about her silly, goofy, unicorn puppy ways.
Here’s one of my favorites.
My cat Abundance came to me in a dream years after he was gone and sat on my tummy and purred the way he used to do in life when we were together. He just wanted to let me know he was alive and doing fine.
Just found these videos about animals communicating from the other side. And people communicate too. My aunt called my name out loud after she passed. She and I have a code word so whenever I see or hear it, I know it is my Aunt Leona saying hi from the other side. I saw various people who looked like the folks I lost at times. My grandmother who died before I was born and who I was named after talked to me about the importance of my name. A boy who died from AIDS came through to me while I was supposed to be teaching his mother about writing and getting published. I did a reading for someone who’s mother was about to die. I saw that her relatives were preparing for her. A vivid dream with my father 10 years after he passed.
The night before Rannette went to the Light, she came to me in a dream, talked to me and kissed me goodbye. The last time, a few years before she passed, when I saw her at an event, she kept hugging me which was not at all like her and she kept sending my heart light. When I was in the hospital a few times after she left and I was in a lot of pain, she sent me a nurse or two with a name that was similar to hers (Reinette, was one), I cried. And when I told a mutual friend, she laughed and said it was R’s sense of humor to send me a nurse.
Here is what I wrote right after she left. For me, it was so unexpected and now what was I supposed to do for the rest of my life without this woman who changed my life and helped make my dreams come true for 40 years? I could not see a future without her.
Waiting for a Sign
When Dafydd crossed over in June, I did not feel the loss as much since I felt like he left after she passed. He did not take up the slack (or hole in my heart and life) for the last few years so I felt sad that we had not reconnected and relieved for him because I knew he would be happy to be together with his beloved again. They loved one another so much. I had tried to reconnect with him on Facebook a week or two before but he did not respond. I was a little concerned about their beautiful daughter Agla, who at age 40, has lost both of her amazing parents. She seems to be doing OK, with a loving husband, two kids and great friends who love her. She is a trooper, a fighter, D said. Have not heard about Anthony nor Andrew and hope that they are doing OK.
Together Again
Maria and I did a zoom call and Dietrich has been in mourning over the loss of his best friend. He posted an amazingly beautiful video on Facebook of D speaking one of his loving poems with Dietrich’s music. I wish I knew how to put it here. Makes me cry.
Will this do it?
https://www.facebook.com/100004034046539/videos/812947575965357/
Reconnected with one old friend and she was shocked, head spinning, because she did not even know about R and then D. She and I had a long chat to catch up and it has been good to talk to her a few times.
Anyway, years ago an old boyfriend sent me love on my way to Sequoia National Park by the wild flowers and many other experiences of communications from people on the other side.
Here is a video of me and Cici when she was very much alive, right after my first breast cancer surgery. It was taken by Donna Reynolds and Tim Racer of BADRAP who helped us a lot at that time (2015). BADRAP is a dog rescue group who rescued some of the former Michael Vick doggies and found them great homes.