The usual highs and lows of life,
In America millions of women have lost the right to a safe abortion. Although the number of babies being aborted has gone down from over a million in the 90s, clearly the number of deaths is heart breaking. Each of those deaths are a situation that for what ever reason could not be. With real support, decent working conditions, housing perhaps many of those babies would have been saved but for the woman facing a desperate situation, the access to a safe abortion was a vital solution and now that right has been taken away. The republican justifying the decision, literally said we are going back to the Constitution - written 300 odd years ago - which and these are my words allows you to have a gun so you can kill that child when it reaches school age, but as a woman you have no rights as to whether that pregnancy proceeds or not. Better support for all pregant women is what we should all be fighting for but the debate like so many things at present is so toxic, it is hard to have a reflective conversation on the topic.
In the UK meanwhile the Conservatives are bidding to break the law again - all part of their oven ready Brexit deal, which has left us all with burned fingers.
So thank goodness for the joy that is Glastonbury. Having grown up with The Beatles, but in the guise of hearing my brother's choice, I had no idea that this music that has just always been there, would be so brilliant to listen to in the context of an 80 year old giving it some in a field in Somerset, but whilst the start seemed a bit hesitant - an elderly man pacing himself perhaps or just a musician who knows his craft, it was a delight to hear such familiar songs suddenly bursting into life again and by the end when Dave Grohl and Springsteen joined in, it was just a brilliant, rock guitar fest. Lovely stuff. I still do not think I could cope with the crowds there, but really enjoyed having the weekend of non stop music party back on TV/
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