I know Easter's meant to be about rebirth and life, but it seems more like death, death, death to me, particularly as I spent last week in Worthing, not far from the crematorium where my father, mother and auntie are all sprinkled around two rose bushes.
As the day begins anew it's impossible not to feel a sense of wonder at the rebirth of the day.
But it's almost like there was a rebirth.
Other than depictions of the nativity, there is no work of art that has furnished society so comprehensively with what we now think of as Christmas: the generosity of spirit, the personal rebirth through reflection, the gaucheness and sentimentality, even saying "Merry Christmas" to one another.
Guitarist John Squire, who left to form the much-vaunted Seahorses, disappeared from view, while Brown enjoyed a credible rebirth as a solo artist, with three big-selling and critically acclaimed albums: the lo-fi, experimental Unfinished Monkey Business in 1998, the idiosyncratic, anthemic Golden Greats a year later, and his most recent, Music Of The Spheres.
In 2001 he was honoured with the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland.
Sleeping Keys by Jean Sprackland Jonathan Capee) deals in the flux of life, in change, decay and rebirth for a book of elegant poems of domestic life.
Second: they're all either Gatekeepers or Keymasters and their combined presence will bring about the terrifying rebirth of Gozer the Destructor.
This was, quite simply, the worst Beeching cut of all, rail expert David Spaven says in his book, Waverley Route: The Life, Death and Rebirth of the Borders Railway.
Blacklips was part of the downtown scene's post-Aids rebirth.
Kat may have had something of a rebirth after meeting June Whitfield dressed as a nun, but the surreal experience has done nothing to soften her inner Kathleen.
