Catkin

Another link in the chain was broken this week. I had been watching my elderly Cavalier slipping and on Monday it became apparent that he was struggling. I took him to the Vet and Emma made it clear...

The sense of loss and grief over the loss of my mother to cancer, after having gone through this with Darryl, caught up with me and I have not been online for many months. It felt like I had simply...

Something has shifted with the dawn of 2011. I moved to Daylesford, a spa town just outside Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to reinvent myself and start over almost two years ago. The transition...

It feels like I have lanced the boil of grief that was immobilizing me and keeping me in a frozen state.Quite by chance I was invited to go to a Women's Group and found myself in a circle of women...

Mum's death, followed so quickly by the death of my mother-in-law has rocked me. I have not been very communicative over the past four months and things that gave me a sense of purpose have lost...

My path is paved with such good intentions. I keep meaning to spend a bit more time here but the fact that I am not here as much does mean I am breaking free and beginning to feel the surge of life...

After a query I am posting this piece about mourning jewelry I had made after Darryl's death. The band is my wedding ring.Jet was popularized as a material for mourning jewelry by Queen Victoria,...

When I joined DS late last year I was at a particularly low point. I was away on holiday and it hit me that no matter where I went, no matter what I did, I was walking on alone. Darryl felt very...

The past month has been pretty full on. After all the drama it appears that my mother's health issues have been stabalized and she will be going home from rehabilitation later this week. I have found...

Warm thanks to everyone who has sent their love to my mother and I. After eight harrowing weeks a surgeon at one of our top hospitals cleared her esophagus of a major reflux and found nothing...

Recent weeks have been harrowing as I have watched my mother slip by increments. It all came to a head on Wednesday when she went in for day surgery. When the surgeon came to do the endoscopy he...

This week I am able to say I have made progress and I have not only filled up more units of time but I am establishing new relationships. Volunteering at St Vinnies has resulted in me joining a...

It seems I am back, belted back into the roller coaster, ready for another ride. You would think I like theme parks and roller coaster rides. I seem to be riding the old roller coaster often enough....

This is really just a message to let people who I care about here know that I am a bit preoccupied at the moment.My mother's health seems to be spiralling down hill and I am very concerned. She has...

Yesterday I got the phone call confirming that I had been accepted as a volunteer at a Charity Store in the town. I begin tomorrow. I have never done this sort of work before. My work, over the past...