Associations

A friend came round to bring me flowers and comfort today. She's also going through the loss of a parent right now and thought that we'd have a sad chat about common ground. But I cheered her up with talk of photography and blipfoto.

It's only as I go to post these yellow roses that I see the association. Dad's death was on 15 July 1997. At his funeral we picked yellow roses from his garden and added them to flowers on his coffin. The roses were called "Freedom". These roses are not that variety, but they brought them to mind.

Some days my sadness about Mum's recent death is further in the background than other days - you just don't know which days will be which. Time... the only answer.