Rita Reynolds lives at The Animals' Peace Garden in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where she happily pursues a life filled with animals, the natural world, and writing. Reynolds has been rescuing and tending to creatures since since she was a small child. When she and her family moved to Virginia in 1978, they brought with them two dogs and two cats and their Animals' Peace Garden sanctuary continued to grow from there. They work with all beings, most notably animals moving through illness, dying and beyond death, with their philosophy based on Dr. Albert Schweitzer's famous ethic of Reverence For Life. Her adventures, experiences, questions and insights are the connecting threads that define her story. Reynolds is the author of Blessing the Bridge, What Animals Teach Us About Death, Dying and Beyond and Ask the Cow, a Gentle Guide to Finding Peace. She is also the editor/publisher of laJoie, a quarterly publication dedicated to reverence for all life. Her website is [...] and her e mail is [...].