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First I got obsessed with the idea of full-time RVing. Then I got really daunted. Most of the people doing it seem to be couples, and it seems like all the hard parts—-towing, parking, maintenance and repairs–are done by the husband. (The wives seem to be mainly in charge of space-saving storage solutions.) I began to think that the really crucial tasks require a Y chromosome. I do not have a Y chromosome, nor do I have anyone who has one. I am 64 years old and I don’t even have a driver’s license. So I got really daunted. Then I found your YouTube channel, where you do things like changing oil and building solar panel systems from scratch, always while wearing some really cute top. What I find especially inspiring is that you seem to approach all of it like an A student—-thoroughly studying up on a procedure before you attempt it. You make that seem possible, like something I could do too.
What prompts me to write is that today I found the video about the death of your dog. My beagle, Bailey, died a natural death in my arms this summer. Accompanying him through the final stages of his life was the most profound thing I have ever experienced. It was very similar to what you went through and managed to articulate so precisely and movingly. What especially struck me was your unsparingly graphic account of all the upsetting physical details, and how you could feel so much sacredness and joy right in the middle of it all. How you concluded—as I did–that death is not a mistake. How death is not a mistake is not something I could ever explain in the abstract. Maybe the only way to know it is by staying really present, unflinchingly present, with the nitty-gritty of it. I was already seeing you as courageous, and now even more so. Thank you so much for making and posting that video.
warmly,
Catherine MacCoun
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