See you further on up the road.

Heard this morning that my Aunty Judy died last night with her family round her. It was cancer and it took a year - she last longer than anyone thought possible. I got to drop in on her after a debrief meeting last week. It is one of those bittersweet times when death is a mercy but we're going to miss her sheer guts and humour.  In the last couple of years when death is in the air I reach for two sources - John Donne's Meditations in my sickness when he was misdiagnosed with the plague and thought he was going to die and wrote a reflection and a prayer every day for 30 days till he was through it. The other is Johnny Cash - who looks at death straight in the eye. His last recordings are a treasure. Funnily enough death is a brand free area - brands don't 'do' death very well - they run for it. Even though death is part and parcel of human existence.   So this is for you Judy - go with God.