“Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.”(ANON)

But they can

Make you: feel………….

DEDICATION

2nd December 2019

PAPA

How to capture this complex character?

So many facets of his personality.

The only one who knows him is SHE-my MAMA

One of the things that I remember most about Papa was his deep love of words.

He had an opinion about EVERYTHING!

He could make words sing! with such a rhythm and a rhyme

Quite simply he taught me all that I know.

He laid the foundations for what he described to Mama as

‘This dynasty that we have created’

A family that continued to delight him.

I see him still, in the sea of faces that so reflect his handsome face.

I hear his name and those of his family, repeated in the new generations and I know that, he lives on.

His skills as an educator; as a philosopher; his beautiful baritone voice; even that cheeky grin- which could light up a room when it surfaced-are reflected and alive in his children, his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren and those children to come.