‘All the long gone darlings …’ Sylvia Plath
It always feels important to me to properly acknowledge anniversaries; specific dates etched on my brain. October 13th is one of them. In the same year of taking the letters H A M E and placing them around Scottish landmarks in memory of my late father, I placed this small picture frame amid autumn leaves in the Princes Street gardens, Edinburgh in memory of another Scottish relative, dear to me. It was 2009, the year the Scottish Homecoming was launched, a world-wide call to people with any connection to Scotland to come home and celebrate their connection to a beautiful and unique country.
The postcard’s sentiment says it all; always remembered, never forgotten – another ‘long gone darling’ to quote Sylvia Plath from her extraordinary poem ‘All the Dead Dears.’
RIP Katy.
