An Amazing Gar Hug On My 70th Birthday
One of Gar’s many soulful gifts and talents was his ability to give the most sincere, penetrating and heartfelt hugs. He was renowned for them and they were coveted. Entering into the embrace of his arms as you approached him, carried a unique tingle of precious excitement and the warmth of spiritual healing. They are […]
Circle of Love – Gar’s Arrival Into The World
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been decorating the guest bedroom. We don’t have any visitors coming for a while, so it’s been possible to moderate my pace and to fit the preparation and painting around all of our other demands, which currently includes helping promote the play No one Here is Me. I’m […]
The First Anniversary of Gar’s Death
So many demanding things happened to us, as a family, in the first year after Gar took his life, in July 2021. Having moved to Devon, six months later, in early 2022, Gill and I marked the anniversary of his death, with lunch in the restaurant at the Gara Rock Hotel in Salcombe, where the […]
No one Here is Me
The shock of Gar’s death, immediately hit family and friends, in both clearly visible and, more concerningly, invisible ways. Grief is a shockwave, with a wide and scattered impact, jerking some of us into immediate action and others, like me, into a shell shocked, protective state, from which we are only able emerge slowly. I’m […]
Empty Headed Days
There are some days, when you feel as if all of the wires in your head have been unplugged and reconnected back, in a completely random order. Your Numbskulls* must have been startled awake in the middle of the night and panicked into action. They’ve done their best to set you up for the day, […]
Thirty-Sixty-Ninety
I believe that, for all of us, there are some obvious and profound constellation alignments in our lives, that for some reason, we don’t spot for many years. And then, one day, perhaps its something we catch out of the corner of our eye, or we at last feel the nudge from our inner spirit, […]
The Ballad of the Underwater Daughter
How we’re given the opportunity to meet open hearted and emotionally honest people in unexpected places and how even a brief conversation can make a connection that teaches us so much, about the person we’ve met and about ourselves. The Ballad of the Underwater DaughterIn 2024 I discovered a curious, and incredibly powerful puppet show, […]