death

The Sound of a Wave from alinah 924 days old

We spent Saturday on Camber Sands. It's a childhood summer haunt of mine, but Leo and Delia's first visit. It was sunny and blissful, being on a vast ...

Two years on today..(letter to my Mother) from alinah 1049 days old

Boxing Day-second anniversary of your death. We did a latihan (spiritual exercise we do in subud) for you I sang out the sorrow of a thousand deaths, ...

Snow falling in an empty house from alinah 1064 days old

(From journal, 22.3.005) Dear Delia, today we drove (You, I, your dad, our friend Brianne who has come to be with us) to Papa Jaaan (my mothers) house ...

Dreams all around us - saying goodbye from alinah 1157 days old

(from journal 19.2.2006) I dreamt about mum again (what a time ). Me, simon, fariba, farid and Reg (her boyfriend who survived) and Mum were all together ...

Dreams all around us - saying goodbye from alinah 1157 days old

(from journal 19.2.2006) I dreamt about mum again (what a time ). Me, simon, fariba, farid and Reg (her boyfriend who survived) and Mum were all together ...

Dreams all around us -continued from alinah 1157 days old

[ ... ] face of death, have no attachment or aversion'?- i guess its the only way to be free of this world,in the next world. Also, she cant answer my ...

Dreams all around us from alinah 1157 days old

(from journal 30.1.2005) Your uncle Simon dreamt last week that Papar Jaan (my mum, your grandma) came to him to ask him what had happened on her death ...

The moment of death from alinah 1157 days old

'At the moment of death, abandon all thoughts of attachment or aversion' - Buddha maybe this why mum left us without us being present?

Grief from alinah 1169 days old

[ ... ] over the death of my mother, and sits as a blue sapphire liquid in a delicate glass goblet in the centre of my chest. A lot of the time I take ...

In the eye of the storm from alinah 1175 days old

The Mother to Mother project, now that it is online and i am simply maintaining the garden rather than creating it, has given me a prickly gift: of realising ...