Last night, I ended up at the Kristina Olsen and Peter Grayling gig around the corner at the Clifton Hill Hotel. As I walked in, they star­ted play­ing “How I love that tango” and a couple of tango dan­cers got up. It was beau­ti­ful, sen­sual. She played all my favour­ites: “Dan­ger­ous”, “Yellow Piper” and “Heart Hill”, that heart-break­ing song about love and how we must grasp what is in front of us while we draw breath.

These are the vital things in the world for me right now: love and peace and hope and com­pas­sion and courage.