“Population growth is one of the most serious obstacles to world prosperity and sustainable development. ... Women's education is the single most important path to higher productivity, lower infant mortality and lower fertility." Gro Harlem Brundtland - The International Conference on Population and Development Cairo - 1994
Trauma, you now know, can be passed down from generations, but as far as you are aware, not normally through the application of a humble hairbrush. Perhaps something about the situation triggered discomfort from her childhood. You will never know.
"Vig! I’ve been on the plane finishing your book for the last 3 hours. Couldn’t put it down. I have a huge lump in my throat and I’ve been blinking back the tears as I read the last quarter of the book. I loved it!" _ Bonnie x
From our sofa in Athens, Ruby and I watched Grandad’s funeral mass, live-streamed from the near-empty Cathedral of the Assumption in Thurles. Grandad was well known and much loved, hundreds would have come… only 10 were allowed.
