The youngest and last of my mother's brothers & sisters surviving died suddenly this week. If my calculations are right, he would have been the same age father was when he died, but it sounds like he was spared the slow, suffering, decline in hospital. Of course his family are devastated. This leaves only one aunt on my father's side alive of my ( Read more... )

From Bluejo's Journal, 14th October 2008:She dances golden, in a drift of leaves ( Read more... )

Rootedness & connection ( Read more... )