for those about to rock

I dilute you

I’ve been loosing it a bit lately. Trevor, my massive tabby buddy has yet again found himself spending nights at the emergency vet. Urinary crystals in male cats can end a life very quickly. Despite my experience living with critical illnesses, I do not fare well when those I love are in life threatening situations. Powerlessness is not my jam.

A former friend who sat with me while I cried about the cancerous threat to Laura’s life told me to stop it. She told me I needed to be a rock. That was the last time we spoke. I don’t anticipate her receiving a Christmas card from me anytime soon.

Now?

I’d likely ask her what kind of rock I needed to be?

As a Nova Scotian, the instant images that come to my mind when I think of ‘be a rock’ are the famous rocks of Peggy’s Cove. The shoreline of the cove rolls with white granite. Granite is an intrusive rock, formed when magma cools slowly beneath the earth’s surface.

Imagine yourself as magma - all hot and bothered, cooling slowly beneath the surfa…