Delivered in the public speaking competition at Toastmaster 22/02/2012

A personal eulogy for my father

Andrew Philip Sandars 1/9/1943-6/1/2012

IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling's understanding of man was forged in the emotional heat of losing his son at the prime of life in World War One. Words can be astonishingly hard to … Continue Reading ››