"Daisy's messages offer a different perspective on humans and their pets..."
In her early fifties, French translator Helen Weaver
leaves
behind
her
uncomplicated life in Woodstock, New York, to live with
her
mother
who is in failing
health. What she believes will be a few years of her life
becomes
thirteen. In her first year with her mother, she adopts a shelter
dog
named
Daisy who
will enrich her life and change her perception of
everything. This isn't really a book of funny and poignant tales about
a woman
and her
dog, but a look back at Daisy herself, especially in her
last days,
when Weaver
had the heartbreaking decision of whether to euthanize her
or not. What makes this book unique is that Weaver contacted
several animal
psychics
who communicated with Daisy about her feelings on the
matter as
well as on
her feelings about life and her past. After Daisy dies, the animal psychics continued the
conversations
with Daisy
for the author. Those conversations and Weaver's
reactions
to them
are the
primary part of the book so it's a canine version of SETH
SPEAKS. I agree with much of what Weaver and Daisy said. I
believe
dogs
have souls,
and are far more intelligence than we credit them for.
Toward the
end of the
book, though, the dog's messages lost their authenticity.
They
sounded too
human, too thought out, rather than the more live-the-
moment Zen
quality of the
earlier messages. The human psychics and Helen Weaver were thinking too
much,
wanting
to get
some larger sense of things, and they mucked up the
messages. At times, this book will be emotionally difficult to read
for
anyone who has
lost a beloved pet, but Daisy's messages offer a different
perspective on
humans and their pets as well as life and death. THE
DAISY
SUTRA is well worth the read. Reviewed for PNR Reviews by
Marilynn Byerly, Author
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted April 1, 2004
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