This sounds really silly but wonder if it resonates with anyone else.
NC for this. My mum died 9 years ago. She had cancer for about 6 years and varying treatments for it, and periods of remission, and then died from an unexplained illness after being in a coma for 2 weeks. I was really close to her and have thought about her a lot during the covid 19 crisis, as her symptoms were a high temp, exhaustion and being unable to breathe. They put her on a ventilator, and then an induced coma and she passed away.
Anyway the day she went into hospital was the day of DC1s first sports day at school. It was a boiling hot day and I went home to get a hat for DC2 who was a baby,and there was an answerphone message saying she was in hospital.
Since then I have always sort of associated that time with sports day at school. Its nearly always boiling hot and I always think about her and find it quite an emotional day, but also sort of comfoting to think of her as well.
This sounds really weird but now of course sports day won't be happening but I almost feel I wont have that reminder day. Of course I can think about her at any time and her birthday, and the anniversary of her death are within the next couple of weeks too but I feel like I wont have that "commemoration" to focus on.