Today marks an entire lap around the sun without you. And although the sun shines no more for you, because of you it shines so brightly for so many.

There are some animals whose lives become so entwined with our own that it becomes difficult to remember a world before them. Polly was one of those animals.

Calvin Swine. Even his name makes you smile, and somehow that feels fitting, because he was that kind of pig.

I sit here beside my broken heart and try to write the story of Hansel. A task made tougher because it feels as though a piece of it has left with him.

I said those words twice today. The first time came when I dropped my head to Gwendolyn’s side, her chest no longer moving and her heart still, as mine went into overdrive. No, no, no. We weren’t expecting to lose her today. Not today.

Andrea Gibson once wrote: “Let your heart break so your spirit doesn’t”

Yesterday, the final chapter of Rammie Baa Baa’s earthly mission came to a close. And what a mission it was.

In March, just days apart, two tiny calves arrived at Edgar’s Mission—each carrying their own story of heartache and hope.

I cannot help but smile at the simplicity of the message Chris has just imparted: how much better the world would be if we all stepped through life a little more carefully.