in memoriam x

yesterday i walked through our local cemetery, a walk i'd taken many times before as a child, as we passed it on the way to the cinema.....i was fascinated by the care that people had taken when visiting the graves, flowers, xmas gifts, a glass of brandy on one grave, a bottle of beer on another...

images of highgate cemetery, london

{top: child's grave; next: highgate cemetery east; last: sleeping angel}

i hold it true, whate'er befall;

i feel it when i sorrow most;

'tis better to have loved and lost

than never to have loved at all

{alfred, lord tennyson}

for now

xx