We arrived back last night to discover a dead day old duckling at the door. After a search for siblings in the nest a wee strong duckling emerged. It spent the night cuddled up to a teddy in the kitchen. This morning it is eating, drinking, tweeting for it’s mum occasionally, but still cuddling the teddy.
There is nothing like an experience of new life, new possibility, whether human or duck, for grabbing the heart strings of hope and joy.
In the political mêlée of this country just now perhaps we need to re-discover a way of being that moves beyond the negative rhetoric of scaremongering and greed and perceives what is essential for all human beings, wherever they come from across this beautiful planet.
With a deeper understanding of all we have in common perhaps hope and joy may yet be possible.
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In the midst of life we are in death. Might be a nice idea to call the baby duckling Jo.
Our country is decaying from the inside out. People being set against each other by unscrupulous politicians drunk on ego and greedy for power. The very worst and most base human instincts have been raked up and cultivated, not just in this campaign, but over many years. The tabloid press with their lies, exaggerations and distortions are guilty of creating a febrile atmosphere of anxiety, suspicion and mistrust of immigrants, asylees, refugees and foreigners of all kinds. This has been exploited by various groups of nutters, fruitcakes and closet racists and it has led to Jo Cox losing her life in the most brutal and savage way.
The Vote Leave slogan in this referendum campaign has been ‘We want our country back!’ Well, I want my country back. A country of decency, fairness, tolerance, kindness and generosity. An outward looking, hopeful and optimistic country where strangers are welcome and where no-one passes by on the other side. We have allowed that country to be stolen from underneath us and transformed into a snarling, aggressive, intolerant and compassionless nightmare. If Jo Cox’s death is to catalyse anything, let it be a return to the place we used to live.
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