Curiosity

So, it's President Obama. A good inauguration speech, mainly predictable (in my humble opinion) but this is one excellent orator and his timing, intonation and general demeanour was superb.

One word really stood out for me. Curiosity. I love it. I think it's curiosity that keeps me going (that and a mortgage to pay) but I just feel that if people have this urge to find out more, discover more, experiment more and get to know the Who What Why Where When about everyhting, then we would accomplish so much more.

That's been the case with medical photographic work. That's what got my department at Great Ormond Street ahead of the field in the 1990s with digital work. I had a fabulous team who were curious about things and wanted to know more. Bless 'em all.

Ans bless Obama. I really do pray he does wonderful things. He's got the foresight, I think, and the ambition. He wants to rebuild - and he certainly needs to. Let's face it, after eight years of GWB there's only one way right now, and that's up. I pray he keeps his curiosity and his ambition.