Radical Optimism: We should be so fortunate

Aren't we lucky.

Rose Girone, the oldest Holocaust survivor, has died at the age of 113.

This news, which is a few days old, just wrecked me as I sit here in this little café waiting to board my flight back home from a quick trip up to the states. The story of Rose’s life is heartbreaking and amazing, one of perseverance and survival. And radical fucking optimism.

She was…