A thought for an old school friend who I haven't seen for many years and who I won't be seeing again and old friends in Dorking, Australia and around the country who are feeling heart-broken today.

Too many good people have passed away too soon in recent times and, although I understand that loss is a sad fact of living, I sometimes find it difficult to accept that the world just keeps on turnin...g. Even when you are not close to them, even when you are far away and even when you have not seen them for many years, it seems like the world should stop and take stock.

We would only need to pause for a minute - to take a collective breath and breath a deep sigh.
A moment to remember and a moment to be sad.
A moment to witness another's sadness and our own sadness and to remember that deadlines, data, bills and the need to buy and sell and buy and sell is not what life is really about - it is not what life is really for.

Maybe one day the world will stop and the cars will stop and the people will stop and we can breath and be calm and stand together in peace and quiet and remember those that can no-longer be with us.

Love to old-friends.