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Thursday, November 11th, 2010
The effects of gastroenteritis and consequently being summoned to the doctor for a series of blood tests this morning, resulted in my missing the annual Remembrance Day Service at St Martin’s Church.
I have no doubt that it was, as always, a poignant occasion, and I was happy to be able ...
Posted in Charity, Special Occasions |
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
It was Outkast who said that ‘Life is like a Musical’, and there is perhaps more than an element of truth to that statement. After all, have we not all a soundtrack of our life, songs that simply conjure up memories of significant moments. I have always found it quirky ...
Posted in Bereavement, Christmas, Danielle, Family |
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
There are no rules in grief and bereavement – this is one of the very first things that you learn in loss. There are, indeed, certain stages that experts quite accurately predict will be encountered, but the timing is unpredictable and should not at any stage be preconceived.
The only rules ...
Posted in Bereavement, Danielle |
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
I have never really equated my faith and friendships to fire fighting, but then again, this is one of those times when logic and equation goes out of the window.
Katherine Mansfield once said that we should make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. ...
Posted in Bereavement, Danielle, Mental Health |
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
I would suggest that it is an occupational hazard of many media or cultural studies students to spend much of their lives seeking meaning, however unintentional, in any cultural text which they encounter.
For clarification, the definition of cultural text is at once both ambiguous and diverse. The most accurate definition ...
Posted in Bereavement, Danielle, Mental Health, Prayer, Social Media, Twitter |
Friday, October 29th, 2010
Life has a wonderful way of juxtaposing happiness with sorrow, sometimes giving a confidence, but one still fused with a means of keeping us grounded.
This week alone, work has motioned in a perpetual swing between the sublime and ridiculous, although I daresay that this is pretty standard for those of ...
Posted in Bereavement, Charity, Danielle |
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
Anyone whom has suffered a bereavement will tell you that their diary suddenly fills up with notes, dates which previously held relative insignificance, but now are grasped with the verve of a lost explorer holding on to his last drop of water in the desert.
Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christmas and the like ...
Posted in Bereavement, Danielle |
Sunday, October 24th, 2010
Speaking with a good friend recently incited deep thought and many memories of my own experiences, and has been another timely reminder to me of how precious, not to mention precarious, life really can be.
In his early twenties, and at University, this thoughtful, caring and intelligent young man should be ...
Posted in Family, Goals, Mental Health |
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Hope is possibly the most precious of all commodities, for without it, what are any of us? However, life is not totally bereft of reality, and there is occasion where the pressures of contemporary society can appear overbearing at best, and stark even in positive moments.
These are the moments that ...
Posted in Goals, Mental Health |
Saturday, October 16th, 2010
I have said on many occasions that I am humbled by the hands of friendship that have continually been extended towards me in the months since we lost Dani. As strange as it may sound, I am truly a better person for everything that has happened, although that does little ...
Posted in Bereavement, Danielle |
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