The Meek and Tattered

As I went to let Sugar out of his barn this morning (he is grumpy today because the dogs had us up through most of the night) I could not believe what I found on his head. This lost and close to death amazing moth...
Sugar looked at me as if to say "I am too old to have to now babysit Moths"

I stood in shock and wondering how to get it off of him with hurting it.. I gently scooped my hands underneath it and gently released it from Sugars Locks. I then carefully walked it to the house because I could see it's wings had shredded edges and could not fly. As I walked slowly to the house it flopped and flipped itself in my hands with such painful movements that my heart just broke with is movement. I brought it into the house to find a pair of glasses (I lost my favorite pair Sunday - have no idea where they walked off too) to see if I could assist it..

Through the lens of the camera I could see it was not long for this world and found on the top of Sugar's head a soft place to pass on to the next world. Since I had a horrible night of no sleep, painful joints, allergies that made it hard to breath, along with my head pounding to the pulse of my heart and way too much swirling in my head of things out of my control - I felt much like that poor sweet moth - battered and wearing , needing a soft place to land...

Be gentle today for those around us are tired, tattered and looking for a soft place to land.