by Lesley Goodburn | Feb 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
October to November 2024 The warmth of the October sunshine beating down as I walked down a wide street in Barcelona much warmer than an English summer. I was excited to be going to the patient experience colloquium to present Seth’s story and some of the professional...
by Lesley Goodburn | Dec 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
New Year’s Eve a time to reflect; a time to celebrate and both of these are on the agenda for tonight. When I think of New Year’s Eve, I think of being a child and a teenager and the preparations for New Year’s Eve parties at home with my mum and dad. Each year there...
by Lesley Goodburn | Oct 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dear Seth Happy 61st birthday 6th of October went from being a joyful day to a sad one when you died in 2014. You will be forever forty-nine, vibrant, full of life, full of fun, full of love and kindness, full of dry humour and curiosity. You didn’t make it to 50, I...
by Lesley Goodburn | Jun 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
How can it possibly be 11 years since Seth died? but it is, and I have lived those eleven years every day with the trauma distress and injustice of his early death. It would have been really easy to drop into deep sorrow, unmitigated pity but I did not take that route...
by Lesley Goodburn | Feb 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
When Seth died in 2014, I could not have imagined that 10 years after his death I would become involved in a small way of co-producing a contemporary dance performance. In Spring 2024 when I was planning to mark the 10th anniversary of Seth’s death, I was...
by Lesley Goodburn | Oct 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Everyday is someone’s birthday, a celebration, a chance to reflect on where you have reached in your life course, a chance for the people you love to come together to celebrate. Today it is 60 years since Seth was born, a landmark birthday, another one he missed....