Madam, – The new republic will not appear with a political declaration on Easter Monday 2016. It is already with us: slowly we are breathing, shining and seeking to mend. We are being made new. Before, the wealthiest men among us were the best and no grandeur in nature or in book delighted us. This has changed for me.
I walk slower, look to the stars at night and have reintroduced myself to beauty – thanks to my rediscovered friends called Wordsworth and Donne. Maybe there is some good to come out of this economic turmoil. – Yours, etc,