This is beautiful Lavender, who transitioned into her spirit body on May 6, 2020. I can’t remember exactly when I met her but I am pretty sure it was through her partner Tanya who brought her with to a yoga class quite a few years ago now. I didn’t see her very often those first few years. I mainly heard about how wonderful and special she was through Tanya’s words during yoga class. Most fun of course was that we both loved glitter! What other adult loves glitter as much as I do, I had found one and we became glitter sisters. It’s so sweet as I sit at my desk to type this today my mica glitter from her is right here. It’s the much healthier version and she made sure I had a little bottle of it before she passed away. I am going to sprinkle some on her lavender memorial that I have planted in one of my front flower beds. The lavender foliage is just starting to pop out of the stems and I put this really fun glitter fairy yard art in the middle of the plant. It’s perfect to watch over her but these days I sense her watching over me. I sit there will her most days and bring a blessing of whatever blooms that day. Yesterday it was the lilacs, just a sweet bouquet of 3 blooms, the light purple ones and so special to share them with her. I told her all about my yoga therapy school and especially its connection with The Ottawa Integrative Cancer Center. One of the directors of my school, Anne has been working out of there as a yoga therapist for over a decade and she just explained to us in school last week how incredible it is to sit at the table with the oncologists, other therapists, naturopaths, bodyworkers and all share in the healing that they each can provide to their patients or clients. I can absolutely see Madison one day having a center just like this. Even though I only officially started the school last week I’d been talking with Anne for the whole year prior, especially to help me gently navigate my weekly sessions with Lavender during the last year and a half of her life. Let’s just say that Anne helped Lavender and I both so much. One big piece I remember that was pivotal for our work together was how each session we would hold her “living self” and her “dying self” honoring them both equally and the potency that they each had. It was like giving us both permission to go there which you can imagine was very very hard some days. So much more to come on this page about how we both walked together this last year and half and learned so much about the beauty of death. Yes, the beauty, the mystery, the timing, the surrender, the fear, the trust. But for todays writings I will end here as I so fondly remember the monarch that came to visit me in my spirit garden yesterday. There she was.