Tag: grief

• Paying it Forward

  

  When my fourth son was eleven he was a hellion. I was a solo Mum by then, working all the time – working. One day he was seen skateboarding down the hill from our house at speed, in the middle of the road, wearing my big black coat and carrying a petrol can –  while…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 3, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  angry youth, bullying, grief, inspirational posts, saying yes, snow, survival, your people and farms

• Ni Ni Mama

  

  We all get to die. This is one of the truths we try very hard not to look in the face. In fact we will say Pass Away, or Passed or Gone. But the truth is these poor bodies we wear when we are dancing, will one day stop dancing at all.  They cannot go…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 16, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cows, death, dying sheep, grief

• Hiding out from the Rain and the Story of Daisy’s name

  And then it poured!  Isn’t this grand, I said to the animals as they stood at their doors watching the rain come down.  Sometimes on rainy days we tell each other stories.  Daisy wanted to know why she had been called Daisy.  It all started with a rainy day I said to Daisy. With the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 30, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  cows, dying, grief, naming, rain

• Sitting in a laundry basket of wet washing – a story

  Yesterday my blog reading took me from one page to another and eventually led me to one of my own stories.  I am not sure what it illustrates or why it started to peck at the inside of my head until I wrote it out  but yesterday it became demanding so here you are.  This…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 13, 2012

  Life, Writing

  dealing with grief, grief, life, mother dying, writing