this week

It has been an odd week.

In contrast to my last posting there has been a lot of real life going on.

Earlier this week one of my best mates called me early in the morning because his brother had just died.

His life had been pretty chaotic and he probably made a mistake that cost him his life.

He was someone who lived outside the care system but inside the system none the less.

Today, another foster carer, far too young, and worryingly close to us in age, who had been fighting cancer for a good time, but being a foster carer throughout, lost the fight.

She is dead, too.

But she lives on in the difference she made to the lives of very damaged people she fought for till the end.

Mad dog lives on too, even though he did not take much care of himself, he raised ideas in others they might not have had otherwise.

They are both very missed people.

R