Of all the special gifts in life However great or small To have you as my son was the greatest gift of all A special time, a special place, a special son I can’t replace With aching heart, I whisper low, I miss you Reece and love you so. Forever in my heart , never forgotten my beautiful boy.xxxxx💙

When loved ones have to part to help us feel we are with them still And soothe a grieving heart They span the years and warm our lives Preserving ties that bind Our memories build a special bridge And bring us peace of mind

Grief is the price we pay for Love. Reece, a fine young man - Son, Father and friend to many, taken too soon. Rest in Peace, Reece.

YOU'LL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN, THAT SIMPLY CANNOT BE. AS LONG AS I AM LIVING, I'LL CARRY YOU WITH ME. SAFELY TUCKED WITHIN MY HEART, YOUR LIGHT WILL ALWAYS SHINE. A GLOWING EMBER NEVER STILLED, THROUGHOUT THE END OF TIME. NO MATTER WHAT THE FUTURE BRINGS, OR WHAT MAY LIE AHEAD, I KNOW THAT YOU WILL WALK WITH ME, ALONG THE PATH I TREAD. SO REST MY DADDY, BE AT PEACE, AND LET YOUR SOUL FLY FREE. ONE DAY I'LL JOIN YOUR GLORIOUS FLIGHT, FOR ALL ETERNITY.

Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day... unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear.

In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul-love; the old Gaelic term for this is anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and cara is the word for friend. So anam cara in the Celtic world was the "soul friend." In everyone's life, there is a great need for an anam cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. The anam cara experience opens a friendship that is not wounded or limited by separation or distance. Such friendship can remain alive even when the friends live far away from each other. Because they have broken through the barriers of persona and egoism to the soul level, the unity of their souls is not easily severed. When the soul is awakened, physical space is transfigured. Even across the distance, two friends can stay attuned to each other and continue to sense the flow of each other's lives. With your anam cara you awaken the eternal. ~John O'Donohue

Thank you for setting up this memorial to Reece John. We hope that you find it a positive experience developing the site and that it becomes a place of comfort and inspiration for you to visit whenever you want or need to.

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.