Bluebear
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Sun Dec-20-09 05:19 PM
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Meditation XVII: No man is an island... |
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In a recently locked post, there was a response that they did not know the dead actress, and people die, so it's not news. Perhaps. But it reminded me of John Donne's indispensable advice:
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Sun Dec-20-09 05:23 PM
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1. This is so beautiful, and true. |
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If only we could get our "leaders" to remember it.
K&R
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Sun Dec-20-09 06:17 PM
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Everyone who leaves us leaves a hole in the fabric of life. New people arriving will eventually weave other areas, but the parts full of holes can never be repaired.
It's especially sad when a young person dies, one who hadn't lived to fulfill her potential as a human being and gained the wisdom only age can possibly confer.
It's sad news. It has been overdone, though, and I wish my fellow board members would look a little more closely for duplicate threads.
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Sun Dec-20-09 06:19 PM
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6. Always loved that quote. |
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