Comments on: A Dead Man In Clerkenwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/31/a-dead-man-in-clerkenwell-s/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 06 Nov 2021 03:06:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/31/a-dead-man-in-clerkenwell-s/#comment-1432026 Sat, 06 Nov 2021 03:06:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189358#comment-1432026 Thank you for this.

]]> By: suse https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/31/a-dead-man-in-clerkenwell-s/#comment-1430659 Wed, 03 Nov 2021 03:00:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189358#comment-1430659 Stellar writing and thoughts, thanks.

]]> By: Laura Williamson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/31/a-dead-man-in-clerkenwell-s/#comment-1429698 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 23:12:21 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189358#comment-1429698 Sending all good thoughts GA. Having been with him when my first husband died, I am always surprised that people can be mistaken for dead; there is an alteration that seems beyond mistaking. Eleanor Bowen used the word ‘absence” and she is right.

This sequence of days we are currently in has sober meaning but I hold also to the jolly babies dressed as pumpkins and the diminutive ghosts trick or treating; life can be harsh but also, so much fun.

]]> By: Jane B https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/31/a-dead-man-in-clerkenwell-s/#comment-1429594 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 18:22:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189358#comment-1429594 Gentle Author, thank you (as ever) — my many years as my mother’s primary carer ended last Sunday, in particular difficult and far from peaceful circumstances.

“Walking back […] on this bright afternoon in late October, I recognised a similar instinct as I did after my mother’s death. I cooked myself a meal because I craved the familiar task and the event of the day renewed my desire to live more life.”
TGA, 31/10/21

We can turn the clocks back an hour once a year, but nothing more.

INDY YOLO
I’m not dead yet — You only live once

]]> By: Gregory Rose https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/31/a-dead-man-in-clerkenwell-s/#comment-1429501 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 13:34:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189358#comment-1429501 Wonderful, touching article, TGA. Many thanks!

]]> By: Sue https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/31/a-dead-man-in-clerkenwell-s/#comment-1429445 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 11:34:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189358#comment-1429445 Your sadness reached out to me.

]]> By: Kate Woodhead https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/31/a-dead-man-in-clerkenwell-s/#comment-1429441 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 11:18:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189358#comment-1429441 I hope the sun shines a little with you today – enjoy and leave thoughts of death to another day. The sky is blue above me and whilst we are alive, lets live.

]]> By: Paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/31/a-dead-man-in-clerkenwell-s/#comment-1429414 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 10:09:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189358#comment-1429414 Thank you for this remarkable insight, not only to some very personal events in your life ,but for putting your thoughts in such beautifully descriptive words.

]]> By: Jennifer Blain https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/31/a-dead-man-in-clerkenwell-s/#comment-1429403 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 09:36:33 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189358#comment-1429403 Gentle Author. You have excelled yourself. Thank you

]]> By: Eleanor Bowen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/31/a-dead-man-in-clerkenwell-s/#comment-1429391 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 08:45:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189358#comment-1429391 I agree, a beautiful piece, especially for those of us (and there must be many) who have experienced absence in the body of a loved person who has recently left.

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