Blogging From A to Z Challenge (April 2016)

Blogging From A to Z Challenge (April 2016) The theme I’ve chosen for this year’s blogging challenge is ‘Travel’, and in keeping with my  theme I have taken you along on my fun trips to various places to date. Some of my travel destinations are inaccessible by air, land and water and an active imagination is what you need for going to these out of the world destinations. Today I take you on my soulful journey with Sparky.The letter of the day is ‘S’

My soulful journey from 7^th May 2015 to date has been fraught with tears, sorrow and loneliness. I lost my Sparky (baby Dalmatian) to renal failure on 7^th May last year; she had been eleven years and six months old then. Losing her was tough and I needed to do something to keep from going insane with grief. My friend and neighbor, Manee, took me to a local nursery and helped me pick out a few plants for my house. The first one I chose was the Dieffenbachia plant, I also bought a Dracaena plant, Flowering Kalenchoe, Money plant, and a few others. (Manee is an avid gardener and knew all the plants by name, I called them plants with big leaves or long leaves :))

The Dieffenbachia was my first plant and it soon became my favorite because I put some of Sparky’s ashes in its pot. I could talk to it and feel closer to her, it saved me. Every morning I wished her a good morning, told her how much I missed her and how I wish she would come back to me. It has been a difficult year but along the way I have healed, a bit. I was thinking about Sparky’s first anniversary coming up in two weeks while watering my plant when I saw a new leaf open up as if reassuring me of Sparky’s presence in my home. I smiled and knew that all was going to be okay, I was okay and so was she 🙂

Sharing some pictures of the plant taken last May and a few I took today, the soulful journey in pictures.

By Sulekha Rawat