CHARLES SOMERTON WATTS ‘CHARLIE’ 16 July 1953 – 2 December 2018

CHARLES SOMERTON WATTS ‘CHARLIE’ 16 July 1953 – 2 December 2018

Mount Pleasant Ecological Park 5-10pm (ceremony begins at 7pm)

Welcome

By Kyla Alice Goody & Sally Jane Crooks

Photo 1 Boyhood

Eulogy

By Linda, spoken by Kyla and Sally

Song: Blowin’ in the wind How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?

How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand?

Yes, ‘n’ how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they’re forever banned?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind The answer is blowin’ in the wind Yes, ‘n’ how many years can a mountain exist Before it’s washed to the sea?

Yes, ‘n’ how many years can some people exist Before they’re allowed to be free?

Yes, ‘n’ how many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn’t see?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind The answer is blowin’ in the wind Yes, ‘n’ how many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky?

Yes, ‘n’ how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry?

Yes, ‘n’ how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Tributes by friends and colleagues Read by Kyla and Sally Song – Some of Us written and performed by Ian Dunlop

Linda and Charlie photo 3

Individual spoken recollections

Words to contemplate from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Then Almitra spoke, saying, “We would ask now of Death.” “...You would know the secret of death.

But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?

The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance...”

Contemplation song – Beside You by Van Morrison

Ali, Charlie’s sister’s words sent from Australia

Charlie and Dad photo 4

Communal salute to honour Charlie’s magnificence

Charlie and the ‘little doves’photo 5

Procession outside to be in nature and to celebrate the Solstice

Linda would like to thank you for your attendance here today.

Your kindness and messages of support and sympathy are very much appreciated at this difďŹ cult time.

Donations can be left today Or made online to https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/linda-styles for Cancer Research