Cake Day …

Cake Day …

We wall have a Birthday & a Death day.

Yum, these are an alternative to cake. 🧁

We can do birthday cake differently ? An alternative could be this ? Fresh, colourful, healthy & less heavy.

We know when birthdays are & we acknowledge & celebrate them. The mystery with death day, is we don’t know when it will be.

This mystery, very simply, makes life more precious.

Talking about death day, planning it, imagining it & preparing for it, is generally avoided. Partly due to the mysterious nature. The fact that we don’t fully understand the timeline, what happens next. Although, we do know without question that this mysterious day awaits us all.

If this colourful, light fruit selection is acceptable for a birthday cake, can we ask our loved ones to mark death day with a lighter, fresher approach.

When it arrives, our loved ones will feel, it was too soon, unfair, so many things left

undone, why ?, surely not, life & plans now not able to be carved, imagined, memories won’t be made.

Each death day comes with stories, memories … a life lived, not perfect or as full as planned. However, worthy of cake, celebration.

Each day is precious … are we not preparing for the mysterious day, daily. The effort we put in, the memories created….. regardless of the number of candles on the last birthday cake. The last day, begs for celebration.

Meanwhile, our task is the planning, the living.

I sat with my husband, as he completed his to do list on this earth & left us. Alternative cakes, alternative thoughts … were introduced & we opened a bottle of champagne, played his favourite music, loud ! We told silly stories… we laughed, we thought, we celebrated. The candle on our sweet cake was put out.

Find the sweetness in each day. Allow the death days that touch you deeply to teach you to live lighter.