it is for olivia grace.ne night i was sitting in my office when she was a newborn and it was also her bedroom so the crib was pushed up against the desk. and i was just asking myself, what do i want for this little girl. i wanted a life that is lasting in the sense that it has permanent worth or value. and contemporary technology gives us the thrill of the ephemeral and i wanted to draw her out of that. so i wrote this home, prayer for olivia >> there is little room left in the world for poetry or any lasting language. the managers and sales reps are log foard the our highways liquor. they care not for a young girl. but near me sleeps a daughter. eyelids dropped in the promise of sleep. it charms her and she knows nothing of language. nor did i when i was childless and preoccupied with filling another office during fatherhood. now, this empty room set childless. when child language was just a word. now that she is bored we have little time for liquor. my desk crammed in a corner of the office. i am sure i wr

the fact that olivia colman snatched glenn's last chance of an oscar, possibly, met with grace.re not sure how it would do with the critics but he stormed it. he fell off the stage but he had to be attended to by a medic. it must have been a mixed moment for him. he also gave a lovely speech. it carries on a theme of sexual orientation outsiders and then we have the race issue as well. very interesting. the films were telling the story. we had no horse to sta b telling the story. we had no horse to stab the identity on it last night. in all of the speeches, he talked about freddie mercury being about the outsider. —— we had no host. i think it is interesting. i think he is the first arab american to pick up an oscar and it was a record number of black african—american winners last night. last year we had oscars so white and there was a concerted effort, some people say not enough, but an effort to include different ages and different backgrounds to tell different backgrounds to tell different stories. i think we are starting to see the acorns being sewn. race was something in th