A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

everafter…

FOLLOWING TRIXIE’S PASSING, I asked Linda Valliant if CCI would consider doing Gerda and me a great favor. I hoped they might add Trixie’s name to the monument sign at the entrance to the Southwest Chapter’s Oceanside campus. This dog, after all, inspired in Gerda and me greater giving than we had done before, and Trixie’s writing career pays catastrophic medical bills for the dogs of people with disabilities. The sign now includes her name, and each time I see it, I see the proof that her little life, like every life, changed the lives of others, and I take heart that I will meet her again in a place of wonder, at the center of the mystery around which our existence eternally revolves.