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A vision realized

As the world stops for a moment to reflect and be grateful for the remarkable life of Nelson Mandela, it provides again that real test of leadership:  Finding the right words to express what we all feel at the moment of loss.   Kennedy, John Lennon, the Princess of Wales, 9/11.   While there’s less shock in the death of a 95 year old man, paying tribute to such a towering figure of world statesmanship is a humbling challenge.   Not least because he stood head and shoulders above any other political leader of the past 50 years in both his bearing and achievement.   Mandela was the embodiment of nobility in its inborn sense.   He was an understated, active, natural leader with a teachable point of view, and his lesson was forgiveness.   He was an integrator, across the races, and also the generations.   He pulled people together through the affability of his charismatic personality, and so much more.    His essence, his soul was open to us, in his vision of freedom, doggedness, serenity, and most of all through that winning smile.