I don't 'do' days but some do and we join them in Happy Downs Syndrome Day!

"I don't do days", i told my husband,*

i support others who do, but for me someone somewhere would still get left out, so i'm thinking i don't do days but i do do days for the planet - that sustains us all and i do Birthdays everyone has one and if you don't know yours you can make one up, choose one.

However though 'i' don't do days,  i know many people who do and do them well so, stolen form Star's facebook page!

 from the past to the present.

*when he mentioned Down syndrome day and then we mentioned Iceland and then we stopped as i wanted to cry...https://www.cbsnews.com/news/down-syndrome-iceland/ it is genocide, we will look back and be appalled that we let this happen. 

When i was pregnant at 44 on her first visit the midwife pressured me so much about having a test to see if our unborn child might have downs syndrome, it was unexpected and upsetting and she wouldn't stop until in the end i said, " some of my close friends have downs syndrome you need to stop, I find it offensive, you won't change my mind!" 

To give and receive love, joy and affection is a wonderful thing and to care for others is a good lesson to learn for many of us, who are we to make those decisions? just cos you have 'one less chromosome' doesn't mean you are a better person!

I believe in a working together for so many reasons but this is one*, when i grew up people were often institutionalised unseen. Marjorie Zoe's mother, would recount how the doctor came to her soon after Zoe's birth said they could take her daughter away she needn't see her again.  Marjorie's life was changed from that moment on, she fought all the way for Zoe and others to have a good for filled life, and it was lonely and hard sometimes. We have much to thank her and others for, who were trail blazers.http://shallal-arts.blogspot.com/2011/05/marjorie.html

*If you know people you care about them and then hopefully you speak out for them.