In Darkest Night By Catherine Viel

[Manuel Tavares]

In Darkest Night
By Catherine Viel
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/10/in-darkest-night.html

Deep is the darkness and long is the night,
solid the water and liquid the light. How strange
that they arrive at all, nights on planet earth.
~Campbell McGrath, Nights on Planet Earth

Is it too late to be grateful for things being fine, after they are not? Have we missed the boat if we say, I’m so glad we had power (before it went out)?

I’m so grateful my cat can keep his food down (when such is not now the case)?

I suppose it’s a bit like being grateful for sunshine in the midst of darkest night. The gratitude implies an element of faith. I’m grateful for the sun. I’m sure that I’ll see it again when night recedes.

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It’s an odd thing to feel any gratitude for, but I am actually glad that my cat went through a similar episode back in March. That began early in the week, Monday or Tuesday, so I had four days to subject him to veterinary visits and an onslaught of drugs.

That episode was two weeks from beginning to end. He only improved after I....+@
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