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Bereaved - In memorium
In the wee small hours of 7th January 2019, my wonderful father died.
May his katra Rest In Peace.
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Birthday memories ...
23rd March 2024 - where have the past five years gone ? they went past in what seems to have been a brief flash, on waking this morning I didn't feel quite as bereft as I usually do at this time of year. Sleep well Patro, I miss you !
e2aa - Somewhat similar to what happened last year, four years seems to have passed in a brief flash and this morning I felt the loss very keenly.
E2A - This morning I awoke to feelings that the last three years seem like yesterday, not that I slept particularly well.
[This is a very personal sense of loss and I am not decrying all the suffering and deaths from the pandemic, quite the opposite]
I typed my first version of this before dawn on 7th Jan 2022, deleted it and tried again.
It would have been his 103rd birthday on 23rd March 2022 (1919 to 2019) and I doubt he would have managed to get to 104 [23rd March 2023] ...
Father's Day in the UK on 18th June 2023. Always a sad day, I miss the opportunity to send himself some bad esperanto in an humourous card.
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this links to an image
www.ipernity.com/doc/312383/47955110
in my photos entitled "CAS - esperantist"
(which was in the Ipernity Frontpage and What's Hot group on 3rd March 2019)
He managed 99 years 9 months and 15 days.
I'm trying to remember all the very many good times, but I'm having a hard time through my tears.
At least he went peacefully, just slipped away.
I had been called in by the hospital, and I'm so glad I stayed overnight, with time to say goodbye.
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Funeral details:
13:30 at the Crematorium, Bangor, North Wales and afterwards at the Russell Tea Room, Welsh Highland Heritage Railway, Porthmadog, North Wales.
The In Memorium collection will be for the Middleton Railway Trust, Leeds.
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It was my birthday yesterday [6th September] and that made me miss him all over again.
My mother's birthday would have been on 29th September [ had she lived beyond 1982, she could have reached the grand age of 97 this year ]. I miss her as much as I miss my father.
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19th June 2022 & 20th June 2021 - It is Father's Day in the UK today. Seems to have hit me rather harder than I expected. So grieving a bit more than the usual.
What I've missed most is the chance to send him a silly card and some bad esperanto to cheer him up.
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Hope you'll sleep better.
I try and simply remember the good times, rather than the anniversary of my parents deaths though it's not always easy.
[[hugs]]
I know what you mean, it is often the strangest connections that remind me of my parents [& other family & friends that aren't about anymore] - I can usually shake off the maudlin by deliberately thinking of some happy memories. Today it was a little bit harder to do that, and I did manage to do so, after a few minutes.
My Dad was quite right when he said that part of growing up was learning to cope with the loss of family and friends. It is never easy, but there are ways to cope, as I think st some point, everyone will find something that helps the process.
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