I’ve realised that a lot of the answers I write to the daily questions show the impact of my past in my life. Spiritually this is something that needs to be recognised and eradicated. I have slipped a bit I admit. Reality check We have no children but we have within us all the loveContinueContinue reading “Interesting”
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A Very Real but Unexpected Miracle
This is the story of Charles Henry Hawken, seen here with his best buddy, Harry the Hedgehog. This story is written for anyone who believes in miracles, and anyone who’s been told that they aren’t possible. It starts in December 2018, and involves my dear friendLuke Rymell, the Spirit Artist. It starts sadly, and ends magnificently,ContinueContinue reading “A Very Real but Unexpected Miracle”
You Were
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com I was coming back to see you and we would speak of graceful things I would cry rivers and you would talk of angel wings I was coming back to talk to you of willow tears in waterfalls and you would smile and say to me “I’ve seen itContinueContinue reading “You Were”
Blue Without You
I want to communicateTo hearSeeTouch and feelBut all there isIs spaceI think about you all the timeAll your sweet and funny waysBut all there isIs hurtYou are part of meAnd now I am missingYet you stillAreSomewhereSo although I am incompleteI am a product of usAnd actuallyWe’re doing okayDeb Hawken2001
Emotional Day – Thank Goodness
National Memorial Arboretum – Staffordshire Today we went to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, I’d never been there before and didn’t know what to expect. It turned out to be surprising for an unusual reason. The arboretum contains a huge number of memorials to different people involved in various conflicts. Obvious among them areContinueContinue reading “Emotional Day – Thank Goodness”
Tears
Photo by Mateus Souza on Pexels.com I cry for everything you were Everything you will not see Everything you could have been Things you never had a chance to be I love the life I have With the folks surrounding me But sunny days and silly moments Don’t fill the gap where you should beContinueContinue reading “Tears”
The Trouble with Death
It’s about love Let me begin by saying that this isn’t going to be a grim or upsetting blog. I won’t be dwelling on bad memories, illness, or funerals. It’s a purely emotional blog but not a tear stained one. It’s difficult I decided to start with the patently obvious, but in truth this isn’tContinueContinue reading “The Trouble with Death”
For a Daughter’s mum and for Herself
Photo by Elina Fairytale on Pexels.com She was meThat’s how it wasI am herAnd that’s how it isMother and daughterDaughter and motherFriends first and foremostNever to be separatedWhen she left I leftBut I stayedAnd I know that she would want meTo be happy in this life“No matter” she would say“No matter what”She too lost peopleButContinueContinue reading “For a Daughter’s mum and for Herself”
I Thought
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I thought that when you passed away And slipped into the light, That I would no more know the day And you no more the night. And yet I find when all is done You and I are always one. Never more just I and me Always, ever, only, we.ContinueContinue reading “I Thought”