A day of quiet contemplation

Thinking about my Mum today. A time to sit in quiet contemplation and remember. Just one year on it is perhaps too soon not to be remembering the difficulties during the final few years; the strains and stresses and responsibilities of caring; the exhasution and frustrations of dealings with social services, the NHS, care agencies and the emotion of the last few days. But it is good to think of the positives and to look back  and recall days well spent. A marriage of 58 years and deaths within 10 weeks of each other must be a cause of celebration not sorrow. Looking back at old photgraphs of their life together  - thery were happy and together - a couple - my parents.