Balloons for remembrance....

We joined Clare's family and at least 200 others to say goodbye to her today. An all too early and sudden goodbye. Clare was only 25 years old. Her favourite colour was pink and that's what we all wore and it made for the happy, bright celebration of her life that her family wanted.

After the internment, her parents released two white doves, and there were pink balloons for us to send up into the sky.

A much loved daughter, sister, granddaughter, auntie, niece, cousin and friend. We had never met Clare but know her mother well. We felt privileged to be there today and see all the lives she had impacted in her few years.

Thinking of them all lots this evening.