The end of the year brings mixed emotion. A time when we think about our loved ones we have lost. It can be a sensitive time for many of us anyway, and the memories come flooding back. I most certainly get tearful and they are tears of heartache, regret, happiness; like I said, mixed emotion.
Christmas and new year is about spending some time with immediate as well as extended family. We're supposed to be together talking about good times and past experiences but when there are familiar faces missing we feel it.
It will be fifteen years this month that my mother died. The time moves on but the feelings I get sometimes still feel new. There's still so much I want to say to her and do with her. They say time is a great healer but I'm far from healed, although I have definitely got to the stage of acceptance and it took longer than I thought.
I can accept and come to terms with the fact that shes not here now but......... I don't have to like it.
I dedicate this new year blog to the person who motivated me to keep pushing on with Funeography and breaking down barriers. My mother, Bernadine Etienne
