by kelly@thewillowtreefoundation.com | Mar 19, 2026 | Poet-Tree Corner
The Path Between our Wintering and our Spring It was with a deep sadness that yesterday, I learned of the passing of Gavin Creel. For those of you who have any musical theatre interest, you will know who he is. For those who don’t follow the glitzy world of Broadway...
by kelly@thewillowtreefoundation.com | Mar 19, 2026 | Poet-Tree Corner
Letter From The Forest – Richard Tyler I have been waiting with the patience of centuries, watching you rush past in your glass and steel and noise, forgetting my name. Do you remember when you knew it? When you pressed your ear to bark and heard something that...
by kelly@thewillowtreefoundation.com | Dec 12, 2025 | Trusted Professionals
Richard will never forget the first time he mumbled his way through the sentence, ‘I have cancer’. A part of him hoping he wouldn’t be heard and another part not quite believing these 3 words. At that time, he really had no idea what lay ahead. With...
by kelly@thewillowtreefoundation.com | Dec 11, 2025 | News and Updates
There is a moment, deep in the forest, when the wind pauses… not to rest, but to listen. It is in that hush, that thin-veiled silence, where our grief feels most at home. Not judged. Not hurried. Not fixed. Simply met. For all our sophistication, our cities, our...
by kelly@thewillowtreefoundation.com | Jul 30, 2025 | News and Updates
There is nothing like a cancer diagnosis to sharpen the focus in your life. It certainly sharpened the focus in mine. But only once my inner world had crumbled and collapsed. The first couple of weeks left me numb. Cancer had anaesthetised me. I’d fooled myself...