older possibly wiser

It was quite a task organising and orchestrating a celebration of a challenging and interesting life journey. I knew that I'd need help and had been to a couple of Humanist led celebrations, which felt right.  Lynn was a Quaker, and the Friends wanted to have a memorial meeting at another time as she held office at UK and nationally in Wales. I searched the Humanist UK website for a celebrant and found Tim https://humanist.org.uk/ timothyleyshon/   Here's the review I wrote about him. I knew when I first contacted Tim that I wanted a very specific, unconventional memorial for my parent. He/she had had a remarkable unconventional life and I wanted to tell the story in a sensitive but honest way. It was a bonus that he spoke welsh, although the event was mostly in english. I'm not sure that a celebrant would usually expect so particular and ask and so controlling a client! It could all have gone horribly wrong. From the beginning, Tim was a joy to work with, he was a rock, pr...

Visiting Lynn during the last six months of her life, and witnessing her decline into dementia, was hard. My way of navigating the journey was to write about those visits. I hope that the tragic sadness, the bittersweet moments, the humour, and most of all the love shines through.  I have shared them in the tab above called The Visits

 I recently wrote a tribute to my father Lynn Moseley, you can find it above, in the tab Lynn