Key points

The change of season is a reminder of the passage of time.

Any change from how things were when our loved one was alive can be difficult.

We may resist change to rituals and possessions.

The change of season has a way of stirring up grief even if we’ve been living with a while.

Each change of season is a visceral reminder that time is passing; the day our loved one last walked the Earth is receding into the increasingly distant past. Time’s passage seems to take them further from us, even though dead is dead is dead, and they are really no further away than they were the moment they breathed their last.

Any change can be a reminder

But I find that any change at all provokes new twinges of loss. I still find it hard to believe, and heartbreaking, that Tom has not met the

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