november‘s end - 2014
hello dear elephant sanctuary -
our yoga studio..
a wing and a prayer
had a benefit class on thanksgiving morning
for you!!
enclosed are our cheques for :
( awaiting a few more offerings -
will publish total next week..)
please save your money and send just
one thank - you to all of us..
we are very grateful to you for
what you do for the elephants..
and ever so grateful for the elephants themselves..
what splendid beings..
we send you our yoga schedules
so you can see how much we love elephants!
thank you for the opportunity to make
a difference for these astonishing elephants..
here is a poem we read in class
from the book -
god got a dog
by cynthia rylant
god went to india
to see the elephants.
god adores elephants.
he thinks they are
the best thing
he ever made.
they do everything
he hoped for:
they love their children,
they don’t kill,
they mourn their dead.
this last thing is
especially important
to god.
elephants visit the graves
of those they loved.
they spend hours there.
they fondle the dry bones.
they mourn.
god understands mourning
better than any other emotion,
better even than love.
because he has lost
everything he has
ever made.
you make life,
you make death.
the things god makes
always turn into
something else and
he does find this good.
but he can’t help missing all the originals.
