The Day After the Funeral
December 8, 2009 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Grief
Thank you for all your good wishes and we managed to keep it together for the eulogy and to give my dear old Nana a wonderful goodbye. I find today a strange day. Nana is still very much in my mind and there is almost part of me that feels that I have abandoned her at the graveyard.
I found it hard to walk away, it felt as though life had already moved on and yet Nana was still there….I know it is only her body (Gosh this sounds a bit macabre) but I didn’t want to leave her alone. I …read more
The Untold Wealth of The Graveyard
March 26, 2009 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Building Memorials
It would have been my grandad’s 100th birthday this month but unfortunately we lost him from our lives 15 years ago. However, mum and I went to put some flowers on his grave and I was hit by all the stories in the graveyard. We spent a while just walking around and looking at the graves of young and old alike…
I could not help but think of all the untold stories, all the untold loves, all the maybe even all the untold lies that lay buried from the world. We spend so much of our lives worrying about one …read more
