Encouraging people to be more positive in their outlook is a major feature on my election campaign. Seeing the ‘glass half full’ instead of ‘half empty’ is how I live my life and it works!! Being a success is far better than being a victim – far more empowering. Helping to grow and build the Alice Springs ‘whole of community’ is my goal.
Barbra Streisand’s ‘Ordinary Miracles’ lyric sums much of it up.
Change can come on tiptoe
Love is where it starts
It resides, often hides
Deep within our hearts
And just as
Pebbles make a mountain,
Raindrops make a sea,
One day at a time
Change begins with you and me,
Ordinary miracles
Happen all around,
Just by giving and receiving
Comes belonging and believing,
Every sun that rises
Never rose before,
Each new day leads the way
Through a different door,
And we can all be quiet heroes
Living quiet days,
Walking through the world
Changing it in quiet ways,
Ordinary miracles
Like candles in the dark,
Each and every one of us
Lights a spark,
And the walls can tumble
And the mountains can move,
The winds and the tide can turn,
Yes, ordinary miracles
One for every star,
No lightning bolt or clap or thunder
Only joy and quiet wonder,
Endless possibilities
Right before our eyes,
Oh, see the way a miracle multiples,
Now hope can spring eternally
Plant it and it grows,
Love is all that’s necessary
Lovin’, its extraordinary
Why,
Makes ordinary miracles every blessed day.
