No weddings and 4 funerals...

"oh Sam...get rid of that picture, I look like my brother and surely you know thats NOT a good thing" - My Aunty Margaet, a few weeks ago.

The lack of blogging has been partly to do with not having anything very happy to share. Its been quite a difficult time for my family in the last month losing family members and friends of the family.My Aunty Margaret and her brother (my uncle) Tom both passed away this month. Meeting relatives i had no recollection off and then seeing them twice in one month under very similar circumstances has been very strange. The funeral ceremony is becomming a little to familiar for my liking.(with no particular mention of "All things bright and beautiful" of course)

I guess we believe different things about what happens when we die, for that reason we all deal with the death of those close to us in diferent ways. And some of us don't deal with it at all.

Even if we dont believe in the concept of heaven there are certain things we do know: in death they are no longer in contant pain, they no longer struggle with confusion, the worrying is over, they no longer feel like a burden (even although we never thought of them as such) and that they are now at peace.

We are of course at a loss,there is a definate void that we are very aware off,particularly now, we no longer have them around to create new memories, or to tell us new stories, but we will always have the old memories and the old stories.

"The song may be over but the melody lingers on."