The last few weeks I have been playing around on a new medium which has left me going back to draw some more every time I finish a sketch.

I received new phone books earlier this year and instantly knew that I wanted to do something with the old ones….and the new ones for that matter, as I haven’t used a phone book in AGES!

I have done varied sketches but felt that I needed to share this one with you. As I am still learning to work on the medium and seeing what work’s and what doesn’t, this one might seem a bit rough…but again, I just felt I needed to share.  The last 10 days have rocked our community with deaths that have left everyone dumbstruck. While so much of the focus is on trying to restore peace, I often sit and think of the mother that has lost her son, the wife that has lost her husband, the uncle that has lost his nephew. The loss, the sadness and the grief. That moment when you are crying in the rain….

I don’t know how it feels when it feels like your heart is ripped out of your body and the sadness that comes with it and I don’t even really want to imagine.

It all looks fine on the outside, but the inside is broken. Even if you know where the person is going when they die, we MUST grieve…that is just how we have been made.

So, I cry silently with a mother, uncle, aunt, sibling or friend whilst they mourning, but I know that for those that do believe, there IS eternal life. It makes the grief somewhat easier, but it doesn’t mean we don’t do it.

It is fine to just CRY IN THE RAIN….

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