We live in Australia and our family in the UK. We haven’t been able to see our family for 21/2 years. The boarders opened and my parents are here with me and my heart is filled with joy.
We are going back to the uk the end part of the year, or maybe before now. We had sad news this week that my father in-law is in the end of his life. My heart is aching as there is nothing I can do for him to fix this. I am morning the loss of a great man, a gentleman a dynamic man, a loving man.
Covid has stripped us of so many things. The Australian Government no longer classed parents as immediate family and the boarders was closed. We weren’t even allowed to travel. This denied us of our family for 21/2 years . My father in law caught covid in hospital has recovered from it but now he has a secondary chest infection. So covid has taken its toll on our family.
I read my DMP with enthusiasm and it gives me promise of better things to come. I like the analogy of the oyster and the pearl. The pearl is caused by grit in the oyster . The pearl secretes a fluid that hardens around the irritant and it creates a pearl. I see that life has to have grit for the magic to happen .
Clare Bates 