The Butterfly Garden is a music blog featuring original songs and lyrics that I’ve written as a young widower and widowed parent. My intention is to post a new song each month, with an audio file, the lyrics, and the story of why the song was written.
The blog is not chronological, so the songs can be listened to in any order at any time. However the first blog post and song is intended to be a gateway into this memory garden, and can be found from this link:
‘Introducing the butterfly garden‘
A list of songs, in the order they were posted, can also be found at the bottom of this page.
There is no single way of grieving, and no right or wrong, when it comes to the loss of a partner at a young age. If you are reading this as a young widow, widower, or widowed parent, I hope you will find these songs helpful to listen to. If you haven’t been bereaved in this way, I hope they will help you to understand what we go through a little better.
And maybe these songs will also help you to visit your own butterfly garden, with all the memories and stories and emotions and love that you hold inside yourself for that special person in your life. Either way, thank you so much for reading and listening to this blog, it really means a lot to me!
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A list of songs in the Butterfly Garden…
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January – Introducing the Butterfly Garden
February – A song for Charlotte
March – A song for Emily
April – A song for Jack
May – ‘To my lovely husband…’
June – First smiles
July – Hand in hand
August – Every step of the way
The Butterfly Garden 