Restful Competition

English quirkiness has rarely found a more peaceable competitiveness
than with The Good Funeral Awards, an annual competition
run by The Good Funeral Guide, The Natural Death Centre 
and The Association of Green Funeral Directors. The winners
of the awards for their 2025 competition can be found here.

But the winner of the award for Gravedigger of the Year
has already found his moment in the national spotlight.
Please mark, read, and inwardly digest the news,
of who won this award, and admire the trees
that have replaced the memorial gravestones, here.

The trees celebrate life past, life present,
and life in the future...  

  

Courage In Absentia?

Woody Allen once quipped  'I don't mind dying,
I just don't want to be there when it happens',
as if the 'just' in the phrase was his courage
in the face of his temptation to cowardice.

Now we need not be there when we die,
particularly not when we get dementia
or have our Alzheimer's diagnosed
too late to stop it taking permanent hold.

In this absentee life
everybody except the sufferer
makes the decisions
for the limited life on offer
for those with short term,
and absent, memories
and are made acutely aware
of memory's limits as they care.
  

'But For Now We Shall See Through A Glass Darkly....'

The picture is of a stained glass window by Laurence Whistler
in the the church of St Nicholas in the Dorset village of Moreton.
The title quote is by St Paul, from 1 Corinthians-chapter 13 vs 12.
 With thanks to here.