Departure - definition: the act of 1) leaving or embarking on a journey or 2) deviating from the expected path. From old French, departir. Robert Frost wrote ' The only certain freedom's in departure.' True; you depart, you leave everything behind. It's up to you if you embrace the freedom totally. Or taste it and come back. You can return. You can always depart again. And repeat again. And again. While recurring departures and arrivals occur every day and carry us on a roller-coaster of emotions through life - precipitating tears and laughter; elation and despair; love one minute and betrayal the next; and can-I-come-too and are-we-nearly-there-yet - forever my favourite source of pithy, heartfelt words, Winnie the Pooh, reminds me ' How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.' Whenever I find myself saying goodbye to one of those somethings, especially if the something is one or more of my children, I (always in their case) mean...
Stories and musings on life composed while walking the dog. Plus the odd rant.