As usual, I don’t care what anybody says.  The Royal Wedding was a breath of fresh air in a dreary world.  First of all, the two young people are clearly quite fond of each other.  No fear in their eyes, no obvious wedding jitters, they just stood there on the altar perfectly comfortable in their own little world.  He’s handsome with his mother’s glint in his eye and clever smile and doesn’t seem to care about his balding pate, and no one could say she isn’t a stunningly beautiful woman – could it be her smile?

Many people don’t get what the big deal is about.  And I know, people are starving and all that money was spent.  What I saw money being spent on, though, were intangibles.  Beauty.  Joy.  Love.  Commitment.  Forgiveness (hey nobody threw tomatoes at Camilla and Charles).  A dash of mischief (that Prince Harry, he’s a pip, isn’t he?)  Happily ever after.  Thousands of people in the street waving flags, not burning them.  Crowds of people throwing flowers and smiling and waving, not setting things on fire and killing each other.  Ten times that amount of money gets spent every day on weapons and prisons with no end in sight.

I say toss a bit of money into showing the world what love between two human beings looks like.  Who knows what goodness of the human spirit around the world might be inspired by such a basic and positive human emotion and need – broadcast around the world for all to see.  The  old radio show ‘The Shadow” started out with the warning: “Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of man?  The Shadow knows.”

Rather we should say “who know what goodness lurks in the heart of man?”  I think young lovers everywhere may give us a glimpse of the answer to that question.