Archive for the ‘Family’ Category
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
It is fair to say that I had a ‘wobble’ last night, something which was always predictable over the holiday period, and which is now hopefully passed allowing the opportunity to enjoy the special Holiday Season ahead.
I am unsure as to whether I would describe it as fate or irony. ...
Posted in Bereavement, Christmas, Danielle, Family |
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
I first wrote excerpts of this post some 12 months ago in the days leading up to Christmas 2009. At that stage, grief was still very raw, barely 4 weeks since the passing of my dear fiancée Danielle. However, even now, so much of it rings true when I think ...
Posted in Christmas, Danielle, Family |
Monday, December 20th, 2010
I felt like posting something slightly different today, and Christmas is certainly a time for warm memories and nostalgia. Furthermore, I came across some old scans that I had not processed as yet.
As a result, and to answer the questions of those who have asked what I was like as ...
Posted in Charity, Christmas, Cricket, Family, Travel, Younger Days |
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
As a keen mathematician at school, there was precious room for any notions of ambiguity. Quite simply, whatever the combination of x and y, there had to be a conclusive answer at the end of it. Ironic then it is that I would end up a first class honours graduate ...
Posted in Bereavement, Danielle, Family |
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 |
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