Catherine Pasek - Celebrant

18/09/2026

What a beautiful final resting place for Barbara.

12/08/2026

“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;
but a hidden star can still be smiling
at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling.”
~ Munia Khan

🎨 Bridget Macdonald - Venus, Jupiter and the Crescent Moon.

22/06/2026

Thinking of John and his family today. A treasured Dad whose footprints will always remain on life's path.

Your Footprints by Donna Ashworth

May you rest now, in peace
your toil has reached its end
and a life like yours deserves
a restful glory.
May you sleep now, at last
the slumber of the loved
you have lived each chapter of
your wondrous story.
May you pass now, it's time
if permission speeds your way
we let go with love, for love
is what you gave.
May you know now, in life
you were treasured every day
and we daily walk the paths
your footprints made

21/06/2026

A very Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers on Earth and in Heaven. I miss mine so much, he left this world almost ten years ago but he's tucked safe in my heart. ♥️ If it's your first Father's Day without your Dad (as I know it is for many of the families I've worked with this year) I'm sending you a huge comforting hug. I am right beside you.

23/05/2026

Anam Cara by John O'Donohue is a wonderful book. So many nuggets of wisdom that will resonate.

Solitude is one of the most precious things in the human spirit. It is different from loneliness. When you are lonely, you become acutely conscious of your own separation. Solitude can be a homecoming to your own deepest belonging. One of the lovely things about us as individuals is the incommensurable in us. In each person, there is a point of absolute nonconnection with everything else and with everyone. This is fascinating and frightening. It means that we cannot continue to seek outside ourselves for things we need from within. The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given to you by yourself. They are at home at the hearth of your soul.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his book, Anam Cara,
25th Anniversary Edition.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/anam-cara

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

11/05/2026

There’s a part of the grieving process,
where your soul kind of leaves your body too.
As though it’s off searching for the one you lost,
somewhere in the ether.

You walk around,
doing all the right things,
putting one foot in front of the other,
living,
but it’s really as though you’re the ghost.

Perhaps you are.
Perhaps your soul searches,
until you find the one you miss,
and they tell you to go back and live.

So, when that numbness passes brave one,
maybe it’s time to do what you are told,
go back and live,
twice as hard.

You don’t belong there in the ether,
nor do you need to search for the one you lost,
they find you.
And when they do, you’ll feel it.

Donna Ashworth