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sigh.. what a day.

But here's a big loss - UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres to Step Down! She has been nothing short of amazing! She was given the reins of no short feet! She has brought so many divergent people/countries to the table! And she did it! She deserves a good holiday at the beachside in Costa Rica. OK that would be my dream of a well deserved holiday. She deserves a good holiday of her own choice, wherever that might be!

Impossible isn’t a fact; it’s an attitude: Christiana Figueres at TED2016

If there was one book I had to pick that left a lasting impression in my teens and beyond it was hers & Anne Frank's diary (OK, that's two). They still send chills down my back. I still remember after reading To Kill a Mockingbird, my utter disbelief that such hatred and mistreatment could be humanly possible, asking my dad if it really was like that. It was crushing to hear the "yes". Disappointing. And realising what a cocoon I had grown up in. After all I was born in a country with just as many problems.

Yes, history classes taught us a lot of history. But it was literature that brought us into their world, their lives, their stories. Where years, dates and leaders' names become the backdrop and the people's stories become the stars.

And that book gave a glimpse of the world back then. So sad to hear the passing away of Harper Lee. But her book has been one of the reasons I still read.

And President Obama said it so well on his FB post.