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In The Waning Days Of Winter, We Made A Pilgrimage To Say Goodbye To Our Beautiful Dog (10 Pics)
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In The Waning Days Of Winter, We Made A Pilgrimage To Say Goodbye To Our Beautiful Dog (10 Pics)

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Our beloved dog, Misza, passed away on November 14, 2023. The same day, in 1905, that Rasputin first met Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and changed the destiny of Europe forever. She was with us for nearly fourteen years.

Our sadness and emptiness led to unresolvable existential questions, and a reflection on our own underlying fear of entropy.

How to say goodbye and give her back to eternity without fear of forgetting? Death is the state of being where that person exists only in the minds of those left behind.

In the waning days of winter, we made a pilgrimage, carrying a white porcelain urn with a pattern of blue forget-me-nots imprinted upon it. Inside, the remains of our beautiful dog. Our last trip together, to Portmeirion: Clough Williams-Ellis’s Baroque fantasy made real in painted domes and towers. And there, as we looked out from the observatory tower, over the windswept estuary, we said goodbye, and so did she, disappearing over the sand, into the wind.

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    Monika K. Adler is an acclaimed photographer and avant-garde filmmaker, known for her challenging and provocative photography and experimental films. Her works have shown in hundreds of film festivals, art museums and galleries worldwide. Adler graduated from The European Academy of Photography, Warsaw, and Wojciech Gerson's National School of Fine Arts. She first gained attention with the transgressive art-film Chernobyl of Love (2012), filmed in Ukraine, near the ruins of the 1986 nuclear accident. Her upcoming feature film, Sick Bacchus, tells a story of pathological consumption amongst London's wealthy elite.

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    9 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm so sorry for your loss. Losing a pet is such a difficult thing. They are with us for such a relatively short time but share a closeness that is unequaled. You chose a beautiful way to honor her.

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    9 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm so sorry for your loss. Losing a pet is such a difficult thing. They are with us for such a relatively short time but share a closeness that is unequaled. You chose a beautiful way to honor her.

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