my brother/ running

Running as hard as he can; perhaps for his life - my little brother. A child. Always a child, in dreams like this one.

There’s a gap in between*

Well, hello! And yes, it has been quite a while since I wrote on this blog. "On" it? Or perhaps more accurately, "in" it - as I am, now, filling "IN" the blank white page with little black letters that, once combined, make words! which delightfully seem to manoeuvre themselves into sentences before I know...

The Notebook

A while back, I wrote a post about the pile of books next to my bed, and where they sat on the continuum of not having been opened/being partly read/being almost completely read/will probably never be read. But did I mention the notebooks that were also in that pile of books? There's about 5. (Honestly,...

Kool Thing

via Discover Challenge: Song I'm slow off the mark at times. It must be nearly two weeks ago now that I saw a prompt on the Daily Post,  just one word, song. I was already 3/4 of the way through a different post, however, and I chose to finish that and let the other idea...

The things about grief

I have a plastic A4 sized folder that sits on a shelf in my wardrobe. It contains papers that I threw together when we cleaned out my little brother's room, after he died, 4 years ago. Some of those papers include a signed annual leave form, for annual leave that began on 11 September, the day we found out...

One will die before he gets there

Hi, she says, somewhat shyly. It is a strange situation, after all. I don't feel completely comfortable myself. Then she says, half-jokingly, I hope you've got some good news for me. I take a deep breath, because a lot of what I've got to tell her is good. But one small, but significant part of it is very,...

I Should Have A Better Ending

It's happened again. That thematic accident - some might say serendipity - that occurs when I choose a book to read, from the plethora of books lining our book cases, and lo and behold, find that a major theme of the book turns out to be grief, death - even, in this case, death of a sibling. On...