Wisdom, where you find it.

     This age in which we live is inundated in information, really overloaded. Yet, some valuable learning is in danger of being lost. Think of the multitude of languages that are on the verge of being lost as the speakers die.. Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot See, in his new novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, sets some of it in 15^th century Constantinople. There we find an eight year old orphan girl, Annie, (Little Orphan Annie 😀) who bribes a tutor to teach her to read. As the tutor is dying he says ‘“Repository” he finally says, “you know this word? A resting place. A text—a book—is a resting place for the memories of people who have lived before. A way for the memory to stay fixed after the soul has traveled on….But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”’ PP 51-52 This is interesting to think about in this age when book banning is again popular. Books can be banned but ideas cannot.

   Annie is being taught to read Greek. It’s an interesting challenge for me to try reading the Greek before it’s translated. It has been a long time since I used Greek.

Takk for alt,

Al

                 Easter Sunday, April 1, 2018, Joanne's 82nd birthday and the last meal she ate 

at the table.