To know her was to love her.
Pat Steel: friend, wife, mother, artist.
21st September 1949 - 25th September 2010
Three poems for Pat:
Every river I try to cross
Every hill I try to climb
Every ocean I try to swim
Every road I try to find
All the ways of my life
I'd rather be with you
There is no way
Without you.
Runrig
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
Raymond Carver
Our grove
The donations total of £315 will plant a grove of 61 trees!.
(This includes the 8 trees planted and £50 received when this grove was set up).
Please click here to make a donation and write a dedication for this grove via our secure server:
We can also take your donation by phone: tel. 0845 458 3505. Thank you.
A big thank you to . . .
Peter J Gawthrop
Dedications:
For one who loved trees, one tree for every year of your life.
Published: 26/9/2011
