High Sheriff South Glam 2024-2025 Trustee Museum of Cardiff Project Director Government House Antigua Dyslexic Tweets my own view /retweets I think of interest
I hope in 2023 your coffee tastes like magic, your playlist makes you dance, strangers make you smile and the night sky touches Your Soul. I hope you share joy and the hand of friendship with another and tell your family and friends you love them.
One woman, #SifanHassan, is celebrated worldwide for winning an Olympic medal while promoting the hijab. At the same time, another woman, #ArezooBadri, refused to submit to Iran’s mandatory hijab. For this, the police shot at her car, leaving her paralyzed. She now lies in a hospital bed, forgotten by the world. Her photo was sent to me by her friend, trembling with fear of being arrested for sharing it.
Who will you choose to give a voice to?
We, the women of Iran, refuse to let the Islamic regime use our bodies to promote their ideology. For this defiance, we pay with our lives. But tragically, this struggle doesn’t make international headlines anymore.
The world is painfully unjust, and it breaks my heart but we won’t give up our fight.
@Liz_ORiordan hi Liz glad you are highlighting this. only good things from post menopause - the end of the dreaded bleed. by bringing attention to periods, bloody leaks, cramps and later menopausal symptoms pre and post can change happen. @mollyfentonx is working hard on this
✨Keynote speaker✨
Molly is making WAVES in the youth moment.
Our fave Mol quote:
“If you don't include us, it'll be people like me running these conferences in 20 years time.”
Thank you @Bernieadavies for including young people so we can make cross generation change.
@ejgarner85 Even in your heart break you have love to give to those you supported your family through this sad time. Lovely to say thank you like this to those nursing your little boy.
@bt_uk just how hopeless can one company be. BT wins. No internet and no phone as now voice digital due 3 weeks. Constantly calling them from office to try and get this sorted. Box apparently damaged by council replacing telegraph poles. 3 WEEKS and 2 days. Keep calling
@AndreasClosetAC Today at the fabulous event held at Cornerstone for @CityHospice, by Jane Armstrong, guests asked incessantly about my fabulous hat ! I need your business cards to hand out !
From a heartbroken Father, describing #ChildhoodCancer 💔
“As a photographer it is important to capture the truth and the reality of a situation, too easy it becomes to capture the joy of life whilst discarding the torture that we see.
This is the hardest photograph I have ever made, it is in fact my own four year old daughter. A few days ago she was given what is most likely only a few weeks to live after a battle against cancer that has been waged for over twelve months. This photograph was made in a moment that we as parents could offer her no comfort, her pushing us away whilst she rode out this searing pain in solitude. This sadly, for us as a family, is not a sight that we see rarely. This is now a familiar sight that we see regularly through each day and night, its frequency now more often. This is the true face of cancer, my baby girls blood vessels protruding from beneath her skin, a solitary tear running down her cheek, her body stiffened and her face contorted in pain.
I could try and use a thousand words to describe this image that we as parents are confronted with on a daily basis but these words would fall short of truly depicting the sight we see. With this photo I do not mean to offend or upset, I do mean however to educate and shock those that see it in it’s context. Perhaps by seeing this photo people not in our position will be made aware of the darkness that is childhood cancer, perhaps these same people may be able to do something about it so that in the future no child has to suffer this pain, so that no parent has to bear witness to their own flesh and blood deteriorating daily.
The only apologies I offer are to those that know Jessica, I understand that this photo is hard to see and even harder to absorb. To those that do not know Jessica I offer no apologies, this is what cancer does to a child in their final weeks and days!!! Before her diagnosis I was one of those ignorant to the darkness of childhood cancer, not truly appreciating the hell that it brings. It would never happen to us! Now I give childhood cancer the respect it deserves, seeing too many children suffering this same fate and watching families torn apart.
If this photograph only serves as a purpose to make people think twice about this evil and put into perspective what it does to a child then it has achieved its purpose. Research needs to be done, cures need to be found, too long now has this been allowed to happen.
Please I beg of you, as a heartbroken father, it is too late for my daughter, but childhood cancer needs to be cured. No family should have to go through this hell.”
This right here is the REAL life of childhood cancer. Not the cute, smiling bald Children ones that you see. Our community desperately needs your support. Please give a #Follow & become a voice for our Children. 🙏🏻
❤️ Jessica ❤️
#Forever4