For Auld Lang Syne
" For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet For auld lang syne!" I am no good at good byes. And they are fast approaching. Now I concede whatever had happened in my life I may always have found them difficult but I believe that the day nearly 19 years ago I was diagnosed with cancer makes them harder for me. It opened up that vulnerable place and I just was never able to shut it up again. So with some big goodbyes approaching, a trip to see Les Miserables at the cinema was very risky but I really wanted to see it. Off I tripped with my colleagues and of course "I dreamed a dream" was my undoing. A scene of a mother dying and not being there to care for her child my nightmare. But it's also such a powerful story of love and redemption that my heart was lifted too. A bit of a cathartic release lets say! It's the theme that's at the core of my vulnerability: not being there for my children. I