Everyone grieves and holds on as they need to. Losing all those loved ones, I can imagine... I imagine Mum going, as she will, and feel the void. No one can tell you when it's time to let go and maybe holding on is exactly what YOU need. Oof, I feel sad FOR you, for us, the world. But .. but .. you are intelligent and well read enough to know we all must die. No need for depression, but it's human to feel it. I feel I bang on about Dad a lot on Hive but it helps me honour him and grapple with the big questions - or at least, remind myself of the answers.

As I write this, in the bath, the kookaburras are having their mad giggle chicken moment. They are in on the big cosmic joke perhaps. Sending you unserious revelerie over the sea. It may be checked for social media for the last five years as it lands on your soil though.