For Bernie.
Posted 04-12-07 at 20:51 by Magpi 47
Yesterday I could not write......I was made numb by the sad news of Ian's death.
The sadness kept touching me and making me wonder how I would cope if I lost my soulmate.....and I kept on thinking of you Bernie, and hoping that someone was taking care of you....enveloping you with warmth and kindness......taking the burden of doing things from you.....making decisions.
I so wanted Ian to be one of the survivors.
To have a happy ending.....but life isn't like that.
It was my daughter who broke the news to me, and it was like being thumped in the solar plexus.
I only knew Ian from reading his posts....and I have to say many of his thoughts could have been mine....but then that may have been because we were roughly from the same era.
I felt like I knew this man well.
Isn't it strange when someone who we do not know can affect us in such a way?
I had planned to visit him next week and take him a bottle of his favourite tipple Merlot........I am saddened that this is no longer going to happen.
I feel for his family too.......it is never easy to say goodbye to a loved one.....but at what is supposed to be a season of joy it is doubly hard.
I feel the need to repeat what I said in an earlier blog......bad things happen to good people.
The sadness kept touching me and making me wonder how I would cope if I lost my soulmate.....and I kept on thinking of you Bernie, and hoping that someone was taking care of you....enveloping you with warmth and kindness......taking the burden of doing things from you.....making decisions.
I so wanted Ian to be one of the survivors.
To have a happy ending.....but life isn't like that.
It was my daughter who broke the news to me, and it was like being thumped in the solar plexus.
I only knew Ian from reading his posts....and I have to say many of his thoughts could have been mine....but then that may have been because we were roughly from the same era.
I felt like I knew this man well.
Isn't it strange when someone who we do not know can affect us in such a way?
I had planned to visit him next week and take him a bottle of his favourite tipple Merlot........I am saddened that this is no longer going to happen.
I feel for his family too.......it is never easy to say goodbye to a loved one.....but at what is supposed to be a season of joy it is doubly hard.
I feel the need to repeat what I said in an earlier blog......bad things happen to good people.
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Thanks for that Magpi, it is such a shame you never got the chance to meet him. We have been to the "Light Up A Life" service tonight at St Paul's Church in Accrington. You donate five pounds to the hospice and they light a bulb on the Christmas Tree and also project the names of the people who's memory you are honouring on to the wall above the altar. It was a lovely service and we were helping a worthy cause.Posted 04-12-07 at 21:50 by bernie
- Glad you got some comfort from the service.
I donated to the Hospice movement when I was shopping in Preston recently........they had a tree that you could put the name of someone you had lost, on.
It is 16 years since we lost my dad to lung cancer and I still miss him.
the Hospice movement is a very worthy cause....they do sterling work.Posted 05-12-07 at 09:37 by Magpi 47 - Thanks Magpi for the lovely card and the poem. I will be framing my copy and will pass the other ones onto his sons. It is a beautiful touching poem, you are very talented.Posted 06-12-07 at 11:59 by bernie
- You are welcome Bernie. I'm glad you liked it.Posted 06-12-07 at 21:21 by Magpi 47
