Let's take talking as a starting point for better days

THANK goodness for summer. When the world is truly awful, at least there’s the light and bird song and everything growing.

- Hilton Dawson

There's life and beauty across the whole sky and in the tiniest, most obscure corner.

At the moment, I wish the days would never stop getting longer and that this lovely time of early June, might for some of us stand still.

As they won't; it’s best to just enjoy them while we can and use some glorious days to recharge and reflect and rebuild.

My own reflection is that I refuse to be defined by dreadful times, or to turn what I feel into just reacting to hideous events and the despicable words and actions of others.

Everybody matters.

Every single one of us is unique, there will never be anyone else exactly the same as us. Every one of us is a member of the human family, all related and interlinked, with our roots in Africa.

We have all travelled the world to get where we are.

We are all mammals, we each and every one of us require a long period of love and nurturing as soon as we are born, to enable us to develop and grow.

Empathy and caring for others is a central part of the human condition, learned and developed in very early life, even as our brains developed.

There may only be a small number of people whom we love, but we will prosper if we offer all human beings unconditional positive regard and simply try to treat each other in the way that we'd want to be treated by them.