tsunami

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 1048 days old

[ ... ] when the Tsunami struck and before we moved back here. A kind of preview of the life we were coming to, in this same street, enabled by your ...

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

(from journal 8.2.2005) I dreamt of my mum- she was cooking in the next room and i came in, in case she disappeared.She was in pink. I told her 'i love ...

Dreams all around us from alinah 1157 days old

[ ... ] died in the Tsunami. I went towards one who i thought was her. and as i did, the shadows of the souls, including hers, passed through my body-warm ...

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

Now the rage has died down, and after my last counselling session and latihan, I am finding a way to be with the deep, deep sadness that has risen up ...

In the eye of the storm from alinah 1175 days old

[ ... ] of the tsunami, and i refuse to think of her like that. She would never have used that word about herself, and it felt like a lack of respect ...