My old Mum

[Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My old mum died a decade ago (as of yesterday) and at the time it was a loss, but in hindsight and as time has passed it has been a relief. It has been a time for regeneration as my siblings and I have at long last been allowed the freedom to really fly without the training wheels always seemingly there to make sure we did it right. 

Now we fly on our own and frankly, without her continuous sniping and harassing fire from the wings and I think my mum’s almost overbearing presence in our lives is not as missed as she would have liked. 

It has been said by many that the world will not completely heal from the wounds of WW2 until those who fought in and around it, are gone. WW2, the war after the war to end all wars, only got paid off by Britain in 2006. I was at Slapton Sands to shoot a D-Day training site and the announcer suddenly blurted out that the billions of Pounds Sterling in WW2 debt had finally been erased 70 years after the first loans for Lend-Lease ships, planes and materiel.

So progress, while painful, holds promise for the future. Yes, the previous generation struggled, and as I head into my old age, I am glad to not have struggled like they did.

Jan

On Sep 20, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Rene M Hales wrote:

So sorry for your loss.--Rene

 

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Mum died yesterday afternoon. I am with her now. Lifes struggles are over. All that fighting and now she is dead. Now there is nothing. No sound no breath. No greeting smile nothing. She just lays there motionless. Is she with her mother and father, sisters, bothers or is there nothing just non existence. There is only the sound of the refridgeration unit and the traffic in the street outside. I am very sad, she was my lifelong friend and now she has gone.
Chris
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