How I will honour Dad’s memory
July 23, 2008 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Grief
When Dad died I was devastated and still am….we had a strange relationship in many ways. We were so similar and yet found it difficult later in life to connect. I still don’t understand why….
Fortunately at the end of his life – he died of dementia – we became close and we both managed to say those three little words to each other. Families are strange aren’t they…..now he isn’t he, I miss him soooo very much.
Anyway it will be his birthday on August 12th and I wanted to do something that honours his memory. He loved people, he loved to share, he was the champion for the underdog. So I was thinking that on 12 August I will bring together stories or memorials of other people who have lost people, they loved.
To this end if you want to join in the email me at anna@b5media.com with either
- A story that makes you smile of someone you have lost
- A dedication for someone you loved and lost
- A poem inspired by your grief
- Or a link to an article that you have written about the death or grief over a loved one
So that I have time to pull them together could you get them to me by 10 August 2008.
Let’s make that day special and show the power of love, the power of sharing and the power of memories….
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How wonderful and what a lovely way to memorialize him. Life is so precious, I realize that more and more each day. I think if I am able to do nothing else the rest of my life, I shall spend my days trying to love without condition. Being the best person I can be and always extending a hand to others in need. I’m so blessed to talk to some of you here, afterall it’s a quiet hello, a soft spoken “it will be ok”, a blessing of “God be with you dear” that makes me feel so loved. It’s so wonderful to have friends that we can all reach out to from time to time when we need, and even when we don’t need, just to say hello. You never know when you might just have been the bright spot in that persons life that day. Thank you so much for sharing your memories of you loved one so special. I’d love to send a story about mine as well, so I shall sit down this weekend and do that. Thanks again, Shelley
Shelley – I will look forward to receiving it. I hope that if people write down their happy memories then it will help them to remember the love and the happy times. Dad would love that….