ViewpointsOpinionA statue of Helen Keller in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, in a file photo. Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty ImagesGerald Heinrichs1/20/2026|Updated: 1/20/20260:00CommentaryBorn blind and deaf, Helen Keller certainly had something to complain about. But she didn’t. Instead she told others, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” And she stated, “A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”Gerald HeinrichsAuthorGerald B. Heinrichs is a lawyer in Regina.Author’s Selected ArticlesIf You Cut the Threads, Things Fall ApartAug 07, 2025Is There Much Hope for Our Downtowns?Jun 13, 2025The Brave New Search for TruthFeb 02, 2025Why Media Are Facing a ReckoningNov 20, 2024
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