10/23/2026
Signs
Somethings are hard to believe. Signs, when they happen, feel like we are making them up…but I couldn’t make this one up even if I wanted to.
This morning, I was taking the dogs for a walk wondering if the sun would ever come out so I could take glass pictures of my Raven before it ships. As I was getting started on the trail I intentionally asked my mom to send me a sign today. A few steps into the walk my inner voice said to look in the trees (cause mom was always shoving random stuff up in trees).
As I strolled along I kinda forgot about it until I noticed a tree with holes in it and it looked like maybe fungus in the holes so I kept walking by but a nagging feeling told me to see about checking it out closer on the way back. Half hour later, as I came back around, I wondered up to this tree and realized it wasn’t fungus but a little rose quartz figurine! Looked like it might be a little pig. I took a quick picture cause I was thrilled to find it but left it undisturbed for the next adventurer. I maybe walked 10 yards and was compelled to go back and “really give it a good look” so I went back and pulled it out of the tree to realize this wasn’t a crystal pig, but a rose quartz corgi (with an ear missing).
Years ago, me and my mom shared a beloved corgi named Pugsley. He lived a long good life but passed a number of years before my mom. You don’t find crystal corgi carvings very often…let alone hiding in a tree out in the woods…right after asking your mom for a wink from the other side…and of course carved in rose quartz (a “love” stone).
I can only imagine the effort it took for her to coordinate this one, but my heart is full today.
I say all that to pass along this message…that our loved ones are closer than we think! One of the best things we can do in life is to lose love. To lose love means that we once had it. And I’m so grateful for the time I was able to spend with my mother while she was here. The more I miss her, the greater my expression of love to my children, to my friends. The pain of loss ripples and it can be in such powerful and positive ways❤️🙏