I haven’t written here in a few weeks – I was working on the next Weeknotes (Weeknotes 29 – for reference, we’re now in Week 33), and I wanted to post an update here for anyone who hasn’t seen it on BlueSky (so, a whole lot of you, most likely).

I stalled out because my dad got sick. And then he got sicker, and we had to take him into hospital, into intensive care. On 1st August (in an act of dramatic irony from the universe, the day after my 39th birthday), he passed away.

I’ll be writing more about this in the coming weeks as I feel up to it – it has been a defining experience, and something I’ll be slowly trying to get my arms around. I also feel the blog will change in the future – there was a time when I would have blogged through such a huge thing in my life, and it would’ve been a centring device, but the current format didn’t allow it.

Anyway, this isn’t our usual full-length blog/newsletter, but it was an important moment to mark with people who have chosen to hear from me.

I wrote this today because we did dad’s 12th day ceremony today, bidding him a final goodbye. Sometime later this week, I’m meeting up with a few friends who have lost their fathers before me, and we’ll have some “welcome to the club” drinks, if you’re wondering how my friends and I deal with stuff like this.

More later.