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ÔÇ£Everything leaves a mark. Every blow echoes in the forest inside, every injustice cuts a branch, & every loss is a fallen tree. The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea & the wind & the salted truth of death, & we go on.
And every step we take, every breath we spend, every wish fulfilled is a duty to those lives & loves no longer graced, as we still are, with the spark & rhythm of the Source: the soul we loved, in their eyes.ÔÇØ
Gregory David Roberts, The mountain shadow


When Theresa May made her first party conference speech as Prime Minister, she said that if you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere.
It is worth noting that, in Germany in 1933, someone said ÔÇ£It is a small rootless, international clique that is turning the people against each other ÔÇô that does not want them to have peace. It is people who are at home both nowhere & everywhere ÔÇô who do not have anywhere a soil on which they have grown up.ÔÇØ
That person was Adolf Hitler.
I put MayÔÇÖs speech to Stella. ÔÇ£A citizen of the world, for me, is about compassionÔÇØ she says ÔÇ£And my worry is sheÔÇÖs trading off patriotism against compassion. Compassion & tolerance always used to be a very proud British value & sheÔÇÖs stripping that out.ÔÇØ
Stella Creasy, Brit. MP.

I must belong somewhere, Jonathan Dean