Happy Birthday Dad

Dad was a huge influence on my life, and someone I miss every day since he died in 2003. Dad was the original shy, retiring person until….he was with people. He loved people – his whole aim in life was to firstly help friends and family as much as humanly possible and secondly to find the good in each person that he met. It would have been his 84th birthday today – the glorious 12th.

Like many people, I don’t think I truly understood the strength of my love until it was too late. Somehow, you believe that parents will be there forever, or that they know how much you love them. When I watched Dad die with dementia, my heart broke. I held his hand as he took his final breath of life, and I knew that the one thing I had to do, was to keep his legacy of love alive.

I know that he would be proud of the community of widows and widowers we have at Widows Quest.  I know that he would love the way we support each other through grief, I know that he would be proud that we don’t just give up, that we fight to find our way through our bereavement.

Dad, I miss you. Today would have been a special day with family but despite your absence from our world, you stay alive in our hearts, in our minds and in the way we live our lives.

In special rememberance to all those we love – I will post the tributes that people have sent in to honour the memories of others the Widows Quest community have lost.

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