Requiem
Reflections on recent death and continuing devastation.
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat eis.
On 19th September, my partner Alan suddenly died.
I have no words for what happened that day. I could tell you how he died, but that is merely describing. The medically-minded and morbidly inclined might like to know he died of a pulmonary embolism caused by deep vein thrombosis. But that’s w…



