A Day For Women Worldwide to Rejoice
Journal
Volume 2
I
HOW GOOD to retire last night, spotting a one liner ‘breaking news’ on BBC News 24 as I closed the room down, Raducanu has won the US Open …
It is an astonishing victory. It also comes with perfect timing, as part of the world shudders at the increasing mistreatment of Women and Girls in Afghanistan.
In the darkest moments of the last century’s concentration camps and throughout occupied Europe, one word, one name, two syllables, was constantly whispered by victims. “Churchill”.
It gave them hope. Most did not survive. Nevertheless, the spirit of freedom would not be trampled, its light, quite simply, would not be extinguished, and could not be extinguished!
“And Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not”
II
Emma Raducanu’s victory must surely have those minds desirous that life return to their 7th Century - wait for it - Anno Domini - Utopia. That little Latin phrase should set their teeth set on edge.
I think of Leylah Annie Fernandez, a young woman with an equally incredible future ahead of her.
I think of all the sportswomen who have, worldwide, excelled in the Olympics and the Paralympics in Tokyo.
I think of International Womens Day held annually on March 8. And I think of the Triumph of Women over Tyranny.
This takes on even greater importance in 2022.
How wonderful, that two young women, just 18, reach the US Open Final, from Canada and the United Kingdom, thrash it out and compete on a global stage; and within hours, a letter is delivered from the longest serving and senior head of state in the world …
… yes, you rag bags! Teeth are indeed set on edge when it hits you that that head of state, too, happens to be a Woman.
Yes, but …
No buts. Go back from whence you came.
Kenneth Thomas Webb
Liverpool and Gloucestershire
June 6, 2022
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© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2022
One of the Fifteen Founding Members of the Leaders Lodge
First written September 12, 2021
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
