Moses is Love

 

“Moses is Love.” 

When I joined the site called Doggyspace in the late aughts I loved reading the stories of dogs living their quiet, mundane and always fascinating lives. I was hooked from day one, and made friends who, closing in on two decades later, are still souls who I am proud to call my besties.

The posts were all happy, which was great, but there is one certain thing about dogs: We aren’t very good at staying alive.

So what would happen to this group when the Bridge claims a member.

It didn’t take me long to see what would happen.

Moses was a huge black dog who belonged to Nancy Bateman. She was her “heart dog” more of a best friend than a pet. Then the Bridge came calling.

It was when I learned a lot of things, including the hardest part of a transition to the Bridge was being the survivor. Moses was at peace, running carefree in a healed body, while Nancy was left behind, with reminders surrounding her, and more reminders missing. 

That is when Nancy wrote, and I read, the “Moses is love” blog. Nancy did what all great writers need to do to express their emotions and start writing: She opened a vein and bled on the page, expressing her love and pain.

Shortly after Moses's passing I began writing blogs about dogs who went to the Bridge. I have written more than a hundred blogs about dogs passing from the mortal world and crossing the Bridge and my template for doing so was Nancy’s “Mosis is love” blog.

This week Nancy crossed the Bridge and transitioned to the immortal world to be reunited with Moses and leaving behind her broken hearted friends and family members who in this fractured world could agree on one thing:

Nancy is love.