So tonight instead of celebrating Mum’s 80th birthday, we’re marking our first June 16 since her death. It’s not how we were expecting to spend the day. But it will still be a time of experiencing the family she sacrificially nurtured.

The soft and transitional season that Charles Dickens characterised as being both the ‘best of times’ and the ‘worst of times’ is described by Peter Steinke as an age of ‘Uproar’. Steinke addresses the nature of leadership in a concise book titled Uproar – Calm Leadership In Anxious Times. Just as Douglas Adams’ fictional (to …

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