Hello AF fans,

It has been close to two weeks since I’ve added new content to alexfalls.com and this morning I included 4 new poems located on my writings page. Surprisingly I have felt more creative as of recent and these poems I wrote within the past few weeks.

One of these works, entitled Continental, has a special significance. It is about my maternal grandmother, who recently crossed over. She and I had a very special relationship and although I feel a poem does not entirely do our relationship justice it is a sentimental expression of which I am quite proud. A death of a loved one, especially a family member proposes an opportunity to grieve in whichever method or media we so chose. I recently read that grieving, while a somber experience, is really an expression of love and is a very natural psychological and emotional phenomenon. Never had I thought it a tool of love but this makes sense to me upon reflection. Gram’s love and spirit is still alive within me and my family and I certainly miss her physical presence but am content with her final wish to depart this Earth and reach the spiritual enlightenment in which she passionately believed.

I hope you enjoy the new writings. I will leave this entry with a few nostalgic photos of my grandmother. May all of you find peace with any of your losses, whether past, present or future.

Ian D. Campbell