What a week and it’s only Tuesday! Reason to be cheerful about the wider world?
I’ll start… an 81-year-old won the Booker Prize - however you feel about the prize (my former lecturer, now departed, was the Chair the year Life of Pi won) it’s a brilliant accomplishment for anyone of any age, let along an octogenarian.
Valuing the skills and contribution of the older in our society is marvellous. My dad is 81 next month and thinks he might write a book about finding out he has a half brother… he feels really invigorated by the win.
I’m sure there are lots of domestic achievements too, but what’s happening in the wider world (which is where so much misery has been this week) to counteract the head-in-hands stories?