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BROOKE BURGESS is an award-winning writer and transmedia producer from Canada. He created the acclaimed motion comic techno-spiritual saga ‘Broken Saints’, has multiple films in development, and is currently finishing the first novel of a children’s fantasy series—The Shadowland Saga. You can follow Brooke on Twitter at and learn more about his work at www.brookeburgess.com.

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The Gains in Our Losses: Growing Through the Pain

“In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.”  ~ Anne Sophie Swetchine

I’ve always been a “cat guy.” This was long before my Buddhist friends told me stories of how cats are true earthly masters, here on earth to show us the way. Or, to demonstrate the meditative perfection of the feline purr. Or, how the life of a cat is seen in some traditions as reward for good karma.

When I lived in rural Nova Scotia, the house was blessed with two cats named Midge and Mooch—tabby mixes, who would come …