{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-post-js","path":"/today-is-one-year-traveling-with-ranger-in-our-rv/","result":{"data":{"ghostPost":{"id":"Ghost__Post__60e771ba0ac152001c973796","title":"Today is One Year Traveling with Ranger in Our RV","slug":"today-is-one-year-traveling-with-ranger-in-our-rv","featured":false,"feature_image":"https://res-3.cloudinary.com/hmnqyibcr/image/upload/q_auto/v1/ghost-blog-images/Ranger-lights-070821-2.jpg","excerpt":"One year ago today, July 8 2020, Ranger, my boyfriend, myself and our 2 kitties\nset out on an odyssey that would take us into unexpected scenery. In one day, we\npurchased our RV in Vermont, loaded it up with our earthly household\npossessions, put Ranger in the cab of the truck and trailered our new home to a\ncampsite several hours away near the Delaware Water Gap. Ranger at the time, was\njust coming out of 7 days of a near-death state. 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In one day, we\npurchased our RV in Vermont, loaded it up with our earthly household\npossessions, put Ranger in the cab of the truck and trailered our new home to a\ncampsite several hours away near the Delaware Water Gap. Ranger at the time, was\njust coming out of 7 days of a near-death state. The week before we set off we\ndidn't think that he would be making it with us into this new era in our lives.\nHe not only held on, he showed us a true miracle during the next few months of\nour lives on the road.\n\nI am so grateful that Ranger has traveled with us both in body and spirit this\nwhole year, and continues to share this journey of discovery and opening with\nus. \n\nToday on this day, I would like to honor Ranger in a few ways on this blog:\n\nThis morning when I picked up his water bowl in his crystal garden to fill it, I\nfound a large black beetle underneath the bowl. The last large black beetle I\nhad seen was around a year ago, a large black scarab had suddenly materialized\nout of thin air to walk across Ranger's belly. The insects that were appearing\non Ranger during his period of illness were so strange that it really got my\nattention at the time that something unusual indeed was going on. The scarab\nappearance was very weird, and it started to dawn in me that these insects\nshowing abnormal behavior on and around Ranger were messengers from the spirit\nworld. I felt so grateful to see the black beetle under his bowl in his garden\nthis morning - exactly 1 year from when he set out on this journey with us. \nThank you Ranger, thank you for being with us and letting us know all of the\ntime that you are with us.\n\nThe black beetle under Ranger's water bowl in his garden this morning.My\ncommunication with Ranger in the spirit world has been the deepest blessing I\nhave experienced. He has continued to visit me, send me signs and communicate\nwith me ever since he passed on September 2, 2020.  I have for months wanted to\njoin one of Danielle MacKinnon's animal communication study courses, and today\nin honor of 1 year with Ranger on the road I signed up for her Soul Level Animal\nCommunication Course 101. I look forward to deepened communication with Ranger,\nmy other animals in heaven, my pets here in physical form, as well as my horse\nthat is on her way into our family.\n\nDanielle MacKinnon's Soul Level Animal Communication CourseWe light these\ncandles in gratitude and love for Ranger. Thank you our dearest Buddha for\nshowing us that home is not a physical location, it's in the heart - and for\nrevealing to us that life and love continue on after death.\n\nCandles lit to celebrate Ranger and our relationship that is eternal.Lastly, I'd\nlike to dedicate this poem to Ranger and myself. We may feel so deeply lost when\nwe enter the landscape of bereavement, but if we take the time to connect with\nnature as we walk the path of our grief, we find that we are surely not lost at\nall but standing at the entry portal to eternity. \n\nLost\n\nBy David Wagoner\n\nStand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you\nAre not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,\nAnd you must treat it as a powerful stranger,\nMust ask permission to know it and be known.\nThe forest breathes. Listen. It answers,\nI have made this place around you.\nIf you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.\nNo two trees are the same to Raven.\nNo two branches are the same to Wren.\nIf what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,\nYou are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows\nWhere you are. You must let it find you.\n\n~~~~\n\nRanger, as those living the traveling life say, I will see you down the road...","html":"

One year ago today, July 8 2020, Ranger, my boyfriend, myself and our 2 kitties set out on an odyssey that would take us into unexpected scenery. In one day, we purchased our RV in Vermont, loaded it up with our earthly household possessions, put Ranger in the cab of the truck and trailered our new home to a campsite several hours away near the Delaware Water Gap. Ranger at the time, was just coming out of 7 days of a near-death state. The week before we set off we didn't think that he would be making it with us into this new era in our lives. He not only held on, he showed us a true miracle during the next few months of our lives on the road.

I am so grateful that Ranger has traveled with us both in body and spirit this whole year, and continues to share this journey of discovery and opening with us.

Today on this day, I would like to honor Ranger in a few ways on this blog:

This morning when I picked up his water bowl in his crystal garden to fill it, I found a large black beetle underneath the bowl. The last large black beetle I had seen was around a year ago, a large black scarab had suddenly materialized out of thin air to walk across Ranger's belly. The insects that were appearing on Ranger during his period of illness were so strange that it really got my attention at the time that something unusual indeed was going on. The scarab appearance was very weird, and it started to dawn in me that these insects showing abnormal behavior on and around Ranger were messengers from the spirit world. I felt so grateful to see the black beetle under his bowl in his garden this morning - exactly 1 year from when he set out on this journey with us. Thank you Ranger, thank you for being with us and letting us know all of the time that you are with us.

The black beetle under Ranger's water bowl in his garden this morning.

My communication with Ranger in the spirit world has been the deepest blessing I have experienced. He has continued to visit me, send me signs and communicate with me ever since he passed on September 2, 2020.  I have for months wanted to join one of Danielle MacKinnon's animal communication study courses, and today in honor of 1 year with Ranger on the road I signed up for her Soul Level Animal Communication Course 101. I look forward to deepened communication with Ranger, my other animals in heaven, my pets here in physical form, as well as my horse that is on her way into our family.

Danielle MacKinnon's Soul Level Animal Communication Course

We light these candles in gratitude and love for Ranger. Thank you our dearest Buddha for showing us that home is not a physical location, it's in the heart - and for revealing to us that life and love continue on after death.

Candles lit to celebrate Ranger and our relationship that is eternal.

Lastly, I'd like to dedicate this poem to Ranger and myself. We may feel so deeply lost when we enter the landscape of bereavement, but if we take the time to connect with nature as we walk the path of our grief, we find that we are surely not lost at all but standing at the entry portal to eternity.

Lost

By David Wagoner

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.

~~~~

Ranger, as those living the traveling life say, I will see you down the road...

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