05/08/2026
Grief is complex..I went to a funeral today for my second cousin, I hadn’t seen him for over thirty years yet I could feel a sadness. I felt a sorrow for his wife and family, for those that really knew him, those who really have lost a part of themselves and for whom the world no longer makes sense in the way that it did…but for me the grief was different, it felt like a passing though me of what used to be, a sadness for the childhood I lost, the connection to my wider family that ended when my dad and grandad died thirty years ago and a sadness that I didn’t get to grieve back then. I’m grieving that now though. It’s never too late to grieve, and with grieving comes growth and the opportunity to heal some of that past hurt…
