Goodbye to Our Poetic Friend
Alan Martin (Dearing)
We are sad to announce that our friend Alan Dearing died on 1 March at Withybush Hospital.
Alan was severely disabled but regularly attended Quaker Zoom meetings from his home in the Wolf’s Castle area.
Alan was a Pembrokeshire native who worked in a number of UK locations as an engineering inspector. He lived for some years on a smallholding in mid-county before his death.
Those of us who attended with Alan at Quaker meetings have been remembering him.
Sally Eaves, a fellow member of the online Quaker meeting, said: “I am so glad to have this photo of Alan. It is how I knew him best, against the backdrop of his home, with the open door, sunshine and birdsong pouring in, the little video square of the Zoom room of our Sunday online worship. How can one miss a video square so much? Because of course it is so much more than the electronic signals, it is our connection through space and time with a very special being. I am sorry I never told him that.
“His non video appearance has left a big hole in our meeting. All I have left are the emails, the links to this that or the other interesting piece, and the birds and the sunshine as I centre down for worship of a Sunday morning. Go well, Alan. We will so miss your headgear, your croaky voice, and your unmuted Zoom which gave us access to your world beyond.”
I knew Alan best for his contributions to Pembrokeshire.Online.
His often quirky articles and thoughtful poems which he contributed for a number of years were always well received and can be found here under the name Alan Martin, which he preferred to use for his writing.
