Summer of Death?

What is it about Death, and why does it seem to be haunting me so this summer? This summer? Try this month!

Earlier this month, a favourite aunt of mine was tragically killed in a traffic accident. It hit me harder than I expected because I didn’t realize I was as close to her as I was.

This morning, one of my budgies died. I bawled my eyes out. He was old, well beyond the normal life expectancy of budgies, and I have in some ways been preparing for the inevitable for a while, but it still hit me hard when it finally happened.

Then the kicker came: later this afternoon, after Ridley’s funeral (we buried him in a special place in the backyard at Xoozland), my Dad called to say that another aunt (his sister-in-law) had died this morning after a period of increasingly frail health.

I am fortunate that Chocoholic has been by my side on each occasion, and has been an enormous comfort to me in my time of grief.

But I can’t help wonder if Someone Up There thinks perhaps things in my Life are going TOO well lately…