endings and beginnings

So there is something quite fitting about the fact that when I arrived in Ireland, the first thing that I had to do was grieve my father's passing. Other than all the admin and all the other stuff of course. But yes, the first thing I had to do when I arrived in Ireland was grieve my father's passing. And today, on my last day in Ireland, I attended a baby shower.

So there's something really interesting about that juxtaposition of a death on arrival and celebrating a birth on on departure.