The Double

We do not choose our parents, or the debt they’ve bequeathed us. But we can, if we choose, create something better and finer from the ash heap of the past

Though our lives are an accident of birth, our fate is in our hands.

As a medical student he’d been advised to think ‘horses not zebras’, upon hearing the gallop of hooves.

“Sometimes you put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”’

Having rushed to the airport to catch his flight to Copenhagen,

Rosenborg Castle
Copenhagen, Denmark
22 October 2008

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Royal Highness, the Crown Prince of Denmark, resplendent in gold epaulettes and a blue silk sash, smiled at

the fire had been ruled as arson.

arms crossed over his chest in an attitude of supplication