Ruby Street

Thanks to all who've sent me and my family sympathies and kind wishes (and hugs), either via the blog, email, or in other ways. It means a lot. We've had a house full of flowers. My mother would have liked that.

I have been away from the blog and other things for a while. My mother died on 9 August and finally we said goodbye today at a small family and friends gathering. dark hides nothing travelled all these years winged leaf, stone life to ground breath the material returned light Norah 1918-2007

‘Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood …’ Dante, Canto 1, The Divine Comedy - Inferno ‘I was doing all right, and now I’m in the midst of it’ My mother, 6/4/07, a hospital, Sydney