Maya Angelou

It was very sad to hear of the death of Maya Angelou yesterday. I had not realised that she was 86.

She was one of those iconic women that one believed would be around forever. Anyone who has never read her first book, " I Know Why The Cagebird Sings" ought to give it a go.

I loved her poems, her laugh, and her very zest for life.

As Gary Younge said in the Guardian today. "Those maxims that people learn on their deathbed - that you only have one life, that it is brief and frail, and if you don't take ownership of it nobody else will - were the tenets by which she lived".

A life well lived and shared with us all

Chris