Duncan Rowan

December 7, 2014 to April 24, 2026

Duncan was diagnosed with Hemangioma Sarcoma of the spleen on April 10, 2025. The vet gave him one week but I gave him one year and two weeks with holistic care that gave him the quality of life to beat the odds. 

In the last year of his life he has taught me so much about myself, about life and death, about forgiveness. He has taught me to be kinder, intuitive, wiser, braver, stronger, humbler, grateful and connected. He did this without saying a word. 

Here is my letter to Duncan. The love of my life. My soul dog that continues to communicate with me through cardinals, mourning doves and a paw print cloud. 

Dear Duncan, 

Thank you for loving me.Thank you for inviting me to play-even when I didn’t feel like it.Thank you for helping me find the ground beneath my feet.Thank you for bearing witness to all the versions of myself that I have said goodbye to and all of the new ones I have built.Thank you for continuing to show up -even when others have left.Thank for drawing me into the present.Thank you for carving out calm in a world that feels overwhelmingly chaotic.Thank you for inviting me into the magic of this life.Thank you for getting me out of my head and into my body. Thank you for being my dance partner.Thank you for walking with me to countless sunrises and sunsets. Thank you for teaching me how to love myself and others.Thank you for forgiving me for all that I’ve gotten wrong.Thank you for helping me put the pieces of my heart back together.Thank you for all the laughter.Thank you for always making me feel chosen.Thank you for introducing me to the version of myself that I’ve always needed.

I’ll never be able to say enough thank you’s, but the gratitude I feel resonates through every cell in my body. I can say that it has rippled out far enough that you feel it too, with the signs you have sent me. Our energy is real and our bond is deeply connected. 

Walking Duncan home consciously never left me grief only an ever-expanding love. I will miss him. But now, just thinking of him fills me with more love. 

Duncan lives in me something incredibly gentle. Gentle. Because loving him was the greatest gift of my life. 

I love you, Duncan ♥️