The answer is yes, very much so. I have always been an ardent sports player all my life and I was glued to the television both during the Olympics and the Paralympics. What was so particularly moving about the Paralympics was to see that that same urge for excellence and to be the best, is equally present in people with disabilities.
It also enabled us, the spectators, to see physically disadvantaged people in a whole new light and to no longer view them as being ‘less’ than us. As such, it has allowed us, the able-bodied, to remove the projections we often put upon them, as somehow being less than us.
Well the Royal baby and third in line to the throne has arrived.
Night, it has been said, is always at its darkest just before dawn and if we were to apply that image to what is currently happening in our world (the dire situation in Syria, the horrendous scenario in Egypt, Iran going nuclear, our global financial problems, the problems of youth unemployment, the environment – my list can go on for ever), we can say that, species wise, we are definitely in the middle of a dark night.
