Recently I paid another visit to St Wulfram’s Church and took some time exploring around the cemetery, which I hadn’t done the first time I went there. The gravestones in it range from the 18th to 19th Century and while mainly quite simple in form, had some very beautiful sentiments that I felt were quite touching.
Death is always a complicated issue to talk about and it took me a while to decide if I should write a post that mainly focuses on death and loss. After giving it some consideration and also reading this post at Creature Comforts, on how the blogging world can sometimes be a little unreal and not reflective of people’s real lives, I thought I should. I have in the last few years had to deal with the death and loss of a few close loved ones and this blog wouldn’t be my personal page if I didn’t feel like I could mention it at least.
Some people are more comfortable than others writing or even reading about this, but regardless of that it is or it will be part of everyone’s life. Just like taxes, it’s the other thing we can be certain of in life.
So, with this in mind I hope you enjoy the following photos and writings as much as I did. It is by thinking about death that we can appreciate life.
I will post some more photos of the church’s interior on a later date. Find out more about the church on their official website here.
Thanks to Elisa for sending me the article from where the Maurice Sendak quote came from.
