In love, one and one are one.”
Jean-Paul Sartre

Did Bono get it wrong when he sang in One One life but we’re not the same? or is it just a different way of expressing Sartre’s assertion that in love, one and one are one?

There is no other topic people have said more about than love.

“Where there is love there is life.” Mahatma Gandhi. “Fortune and love favour the brave.” Ovid. “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” Lord Byron – are just some samples.

Love is the thing. The one thing.

Last week, Pádraig helped to tie the knot for Keira and Emma, and celebrated with them a most wonderful day.

Their hearts were on fire. So was the place itself at some stage, literally.

It was, not just the most inclusive wedding, but the most inclusive event that I had ever the privilege to be invited to.

It made me wonder why this felt so incredibly special? Inclusiveness should not be a special experience but one we practice and experience every day.

This was Emma’s and Keira’s very special day and the beginning of a most wonderful life together. But it was also one that we will always remember as a day that put inclusiveness into practice.

Without a strategic plan. Without a positioning paper. Without official guidelines.

Just like that.

We the people.

One.