A whole year has now passed

Doing the previous blogs at the points that felt like a significant point was reasonably easy to do.

They flowed like most of what I write and came together in a way that I was happy with. This one feels like there is an added level of expectation on how it turns out. I have been trying for about a month to do this post, I have lost count of how many attempts I have made at it and didn’t feel happy with them. I considered something simple and short as well as things that were more complicated. But nothing I came up with felt that it lived up to what felt appropriate.

This time last year we had a collective emotion that was shared by thousands of people, the shock that the world had tragically lost a great person taken far too many years early.

The realisation that someone who had touched the lives of so many people in so many different ways was now no longer with us affected them all differently but having a similar feeling of grief was there in her place.

Bella was like a ray of sunlight bursting through dark storm clouds and illuminating the lives of all those who interacted with her. She had a great skill of being able to see past the exterior of an individual and see the potential they had and had the ability to help that person unlock that and achieve their dreams. As I was sorting out some of her belongings it was…