Did you experience sometime talking with a real good friends of yours so frankly that the day after you were thinking; “this is what I said and what I said really comes from inside me, so it’s better I think about it” (I’m not talking about drunk speeches)?
Well, this happened to me, last Saturday evening.
We were walking by the Duomo of Milan, spending time before going to La Scala for “Cosi’ fan tutte” by Mozart.
The evening was cold and clean, like a Lombardy’s November evening can be.
And the cathedral was amazingly shining in the dark blue.
We were playing the old game “the three most important things in your life” and, after listening to my answers, she was amazed I didn’t even mention my job.
“Job; you realize yourself with your job and after all, even from a practical point of view, you spend so much time at work”.
“Well, I don’t expect anything from my job, because I’m not defined by the things I do. I define things I do, instead, in the way I’m doing them.”
And did you experience thinking about a quote from a book when something similar happens to you?
This is my quote, from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig (1974, an amazing book about “Quality”… and not only)
What pushes the Greek warrior to fulfil a heroic enterprise, it’s not the sense of duty the way today we intend it, that is duty to other people; it’s duty to himself instead. The Greek hero does not aim at what we call virtue, but at what in Greece is named aret?, excellence …
Virtue, in our time, has almost exclusively a moral sense; aret?, instead, is indifferently used in every ambit and it simply means excellence.
Then the hero of the Odyssey is a great warrior, a cunning intriguer, a perfect speaker, a man with a firm heart and a great wisdom, that knows he has to endure what gods send to him without complaining too much; he’s able to manufacture and drive a boat, to cut furrows in the ground as straight as no one else, to throw the discus better than a young blusterer, to challenge his wife’s suitors to boxing, to wrestling, to race. He knows how to kill, to skin and to butcher an ox and, at the same time, a song can touch him till to tears.
In fact he’s able in everything; his aret? is insuperable. The aret? implies respect for the totality and uniqueness of life and, therefore, the refusal of specialization. It implies the disregard for the effectiveness… better, it implies a much higher conception
sorry from my English translation from Italian translation… but that’s life :)
it was a really great evening.
thanks everyone for joining and see you next time :)
Davide
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Talking About Books: 8th of November 2007
Nov 9, 2007 @ 01:07
The text you are quoting:
Did you experience sometime talking with a real good friends of yours so frankly that the day after you were thinking; “this is what I said and what I said really comes from inside me, so it’s better I think about it” (I’m not talking about drunk speeches)?
Well, this happened to me, last Saturday evening.
We were walking by the Duomo of Milan, spending time before going to La Scala for “Cosi’ fan tutte” by Mozart.
The evening was cold and clean, like a Lombardy’s November evening can be.
And the cathedral was amazingly shining in the dark blue.
We were playing the old game “the three most important things in your life” and, after listening to my answers, she was amazed I didn’t even mention my job.
“Job; you realize yourself with your job and after all, even from a practical point of view, you spend so much time at work”.
“Well, I don’t expect anything from my job, because I’m not defined by the things I do. I define things I do, instead, in the way I’m doing them.”
And did you experience thinking about a quote from a book when something similar happens to you?
This is my quote, from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig (1974, an amazing book about “Quality”… and not only)
What pushes the Greek warrior to fulfil a heroic enterprise, it’s not the sense of duty the way today we intend it, that is duty to other people; it’s duty to himself instead. The Greek hero does not aim at what we call virtue, but at what in Greece is named aret?, excellence …
Virtue, in our time, has almost exclusively a moral sense; aret?, instead, is indifferently used in every ambit and it simply means excellence.
Then the hero of the Odyssey is a great warrior, a cunning intriguer, a perfect speaker, a man with a firm heart and a great wisdom, that knows he has to endure what gods send to him without complaining too much; he’s able to manufacture and drive a boat, to cut furrows in the ground as straight as no one else, to throw the discus better than a young blusterer, to challenge his wife’s suitors to boxing, to wrestling, to race. He knows how to kill, to skin and to butcher an ox and, at the same time, a song can touch him till to tears.
In fact he’s able in everything; his aret? is insuperable. The aret? implies respect for the totality and uniqueness of life and, therefore, the refusal of specialization. It implies the disregard for the effectiveness… better, it implies a much higher conception
sorry from my English translation from Italian translation… but that’s life :)
it was a really great evening.
thanks everyone for joining and see you next time :)
Davide
giglio6973Nov 9, 2007 @ 01:07
Well, this happened to me, last Saturday evening.
We were walking by the Duomo of Milan, spending time before going to La Scala for “Cosi’ fan tutte” by Mozart.
The evening was cold and clean, like a Lombardy’s November evening can be.
And the cathedral was amazingly shining in the dark blue.
We were playing the old game “the three most important things in your life” and, after listening to my answers, she was amazed I didn’t even mention my job.
“Job; you realize yourself with your job and after all, even from a practical point of view, you spend so much time at work”.
“Well, I don’t expect anything from my job, because I’m not defined by the things I do. I define things I do, instead, in the way I’m doing them.”
And did you experience thinking about a quote from a book when something similar happens to you?
This is my quote, from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig (1974, an amazing book about “Quality”… and not only)
What pushes the Greek warrior to fulfil a heroic enterprise, it’s not the sense of duty the way today we intend it, that is duty to other people; it’s duty to himself instead. The Greek hero does not aim at what we call virtue, but at what in Greece is named aret?, excellence …
Virtue, in our time, has almost exclusively a moral sense; aret?, instead, is indifferently used in every ambit and it simply means excellence.
Then the hero of the Odyssey is a great warrior, a cunning intriguer, a perfect speaker, a man with a firm heart and a great wisdom, that knows he has to endure what gods send to him without complaining too much; he’s able to manufacture and drive a boat, to cut furrows in the ground as straight as no one else, to throw the discus better than a young blusterer, to challenge his wife’s suitors to boxing, to wrestling, to race. He knows how to kill, to skin and to butcher an ox and, at the same time, a song can touch him till to tears.
In fact he’s able in everything; his aret? is insuperable. The aret? implies respect for the totality and uniqueness of life and, therefore, the refusal of specialization. It implies the disregard for the effectiveness… better, it implies a much higher conception
sorry from my English translation from Italian translation… but that’s life :)
it was a really great evening.
thanks everyone for joining and see you next time :)
Davide
giglio6973Nov 9, 2007 @ 01:07
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Nov 9, 2007 @ 10:15
Great evening again. I brought a book by Susan Tiberghien who is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. The book was, Footsteps, A European Album, 1955-1990, where she tells stories of 35 years in Europe with warmth and humour. Susan is also the founder of the Geneva's Writers Group, that she still directs and where she gives monthly workshops.
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Great evening again. I brought a book by Susan Tiberghien who is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. The book was, Footsteps, A European Album, 1955-1990, where she tells stories of 35 years in Europe with warmth and humour. Susan is also the founder of the Geneva's Writers Group, that she still directs and where she gives monthly workshops.
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Nov 9, 2007 @ 10:51
better, it implies a much higher conception of the effectiveness, that exists not in only one sector of life, but in life itself.
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better, it implies a much higher conception of the effectiveness, that exists not in only one sector of life, but in life itself.
giglio6973, Nov 9, 2007 @ 10:51
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Nov 9, 2007 @ 11:56
next time i'll try to get there in time and to bring a book ;)
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next time i'll try to get there in time and to bring a book ;)
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Nov 9, 2007 @ 14:09
something that I always missed having in Geneva - a group of book-lovers. I had to leave early yesterday but I will be a regular at the next such evenings... Btw, I had brought along Cosmos by Carl Sagan which I am currently reading.
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something that I always missed having in Geneva - a group of book-lovers. I had to leave early yesterday but I will be a regular at the next such evenings... Btw, I had brought along Cosmos by Carl Sagan which I am currently reading.
season, Nov 9, 2007 @ 14:09
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Nov 9, 2007 @ 22:33
(Arabic Alhaweyat Alqatela - Killing Identities)
A Preview of the book: The notion of identity personal, religious, ethnic or national is one that has given rise to heated passion and crimes throughout human history. It is one that is at the heart of many of the most difficult social and political issues in the world today. What it is that makes each one of us unique and different from any other individual has been one of the fundamental questions of philosophy from Socrates to Freud and beyond. In this important series of reflections the distinguished novelist Amin Maalouf, a Lebanese who now lives in France, considers how we define ourselves and how identity is understood in the world¹s different cultures. Maalouf emphasises the importance of respecting the multiplicity of identity and the dangers of reducing it to a single, simple core. We should all be encouraged to recognise our identities as the sum of various parts rather than an irreducible whole.
Quote I read (my translation of the Arabic text):
"Since I left Lebanon in 1976, to live in France, how many times did I get asked, with good intentions, whether I consider myself more French than Lebanese or vise versa. I always used to answer: "Both at the same time!", and my answer was not to be political or partial but if I had answered differently I would have been lying. What makes me the person I am and not someone else is my is belonging (feeling affiliated) to two countries, to two or three languages and several cultural traditions. This is exactly what defines my identity. Would I be more honest if I cut part of who I am?
A Preview of the book: The notion of identity personal, religious, ethnic or national is one that has given rise to heated passion and crimes throughout human history. It is one that is at the heart of many of the most difficult social and political issues in the world today. What it is that makes each one of us unique and different from any other individual has been one of the fundamental questions of philosophy from Socrates to Freud and beyond. In this important series of reflections the distinguished novelist Amin Maalouf, a Lebanese who now lives in France, considers how we define ourselves and how identity is understood in the world¹s different cultures. Maalouf emphasises the importance of respecting the multiplicity of identity and the dangers of reducing it to a single, simple core. We should all be encouraged to recognise our identities as the sum of various parts rather than an irreducible whole.
Quote I read (my translation of the Arabic text):
"Since I left Lebanon in 1976, to live in France, how many times did I get asked, with good intentions, whether I consider myself more French than Lebanese or vise versa. I always used to answer: "Both at the same time!", and my answer was not to be political or partial but if I had answered differently I would have been lying. What makes me the person I am and not someone else is my is belonging (feeling affiliated) to two countries, to two or three languages and several cultural traditions. This is exactly what defines my identity. Would I be more honest if I cut part of who I am?
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(Arabic Alhaweyat Alqatela - Killing Identities)
A Preview of the book: The notion of identity personal, religious, ethnic or national is one that has given rise to heated passion and crimes throughout human history. It is one that is at the heart of many of the most difficult social and political issues in the world today. What it is that makes each one of us unique and different from any other individual has been one of the fundamental questions of philosophy from Socrates to Freud and beyond. In this important series of reflections the distinguished novelist Amin Maalouf, a Lebanese who now lives in France, considers how we define ourselves and how identity is understood in the world¹s different cultures. Maalouf emphasises the importance of respecting the multiplicity of identity and the dangers of reducing it to a single, simple core. We should all be encouraged to recognise our identities as the sum of various parts rather than an irreducible whole.
Quote I read (my translation of the Arabic text):
"Since I left Lebanon in 1976, to live in France, how many times did I get asked, with good intentions, whether I consider myself more French than Lebanese or vise versa. I always used to answer: "Both at the same time!", and my answer was not to be political or partial but if I had answered differently I would have been lying. What makes me the person I am and not someone else is my is belonging (feeling affiliated) to two countries, to two or three languages and several cultural traditions. This is exactly what defines my identity. Would I be more honest if I cut part of who I am?
loula, Nov 9, 2007 @ 22:33
A Preview of the book: The notion of identity personal, religious, ethnic or national is one that has given rise to heated passion and crimes throughout human history. It is one that is at the heart of many of the most difficult social and political issues in the world today. What it is that makes each one of us unique and different from any other individual has been one of the fundamental questions of philosophy from Socrates to Freud and beyond. In this important series of reflections the distinguished novelist Amin Maalouf, a Lebanese who now lives in France, considers how we define ourselves and how identity is understood in the world¹s different cultures. Maalouf emphasises the importance of respecting the multiplicity of identity and the dangers of reducing it to a single, simple core. We should all be encouraged to recognise our identities as the sum of various parts rather than an irreducible whole.
Quote I read (my translation of the Arabic text):
"Since I left Lebanon in 1976, to live in France, how many times did I get asked, with good intentions, whether I consider myself more French than Lebanese or vise versa. I always used to answer: "Both at the same time!", and my answer was not to be political or partial but if I had answered differently I would have been lying. What makes me the person I am and not someone else is my is belonging (feeling affiliated) to two countries, to two or three languages and several cultural traditions. This is exactly what defines my identity. Would I be more honest if I cut part of who I am?
loula, Nov 9, 2007 @ 22:33
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Nov 9, 2007 @ 23:26
To those who have asked me I make it clear with Ego that I was born in Lebanon and lived there till the age of 27, I knew Alexandre Domas and Charles Dickens and "Gulliver's Travels" through arabic translations, and that in my mountain village, the village of my ancestors, I enjoyed the joys of childhood and heard some of the stories I will be telling in my writings. So how would I forget Lebanon? How can I be separate from it one day? But on the other side, I live since 22 years in France, I drink its water and wine, and my toes tough its old stone roads, and I write my books in its language so it can not be a foreign land to me.
Am I then half French and half Lebanese? Never! An identity can not be divided to two or three parts nor to separate zones. I do not have several identities, I possess one identity made of elements in a special combination that is different from one person to the other.
Sometimes, after I finish a detailed explanation of the precise reasons which push me to the complete adoption of all my affiliations, someone comes near me, puts his hand on my shoulder and whispers to me asking: "you are right in what you've said, but tell me, how do you really feel deep inside you?"
A lot of times, this question made me smile, but today I no longer do as the question reveals a widespread dangerous point of view. When I am being asked what I am "deep inside me", the hypothesis is that deep inside each individual there is only one single affiliation that counts that is consider the real truth, the essence born with us which is not able to change. It is as if all that is there, the life of the free man, his personal, priorities, and affiliations; i.e. in one word a man's life, does not count. When we push people to "declare an identity", what is often happening nowadays, we ask them to look deep inside themselves for this "primary alleged affiliation" that is generally religious, nationa, ethnic, or racial in nature and defend it in front of others.
Am I then half French and half Lebanese? Never! An identity can not be divided to two or three parts nor to separate zones. I do not have several identities, I possess one identity made of elements in a special combination that is different from one person to the other.
Sometimes, after I finish a detailed explanation of the precise reasons which push me to the complete adoption of all my affiliations, someone comes near me, puts his hand on my shoulder and whispers to me asking: "you are right in what you've said, but tell me, how do you really feel deep inside you?"
A lot of times, this question made me smile, but today I no longer do as the question reveals a widespread dangerous point of view. When I am being asked what I am "deep inside me", the hypothesis is that deep inside each individual there is only one single affiliation that counts that is consider the real truth, the essence born with us which is not able to change. It is as if all that is there, the life of the free man, his personal, priorities, and affiliations; i.e. in one word a man's life, does not count. When we push people to "declare an identity", what is often happening nowadays, we ask them to look deep inside themselves for this "primary alleged affiliation" that is generally religious, nationa, ethnic, or racial in nature and defend it in front of others.
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To those who have asked me I make it clear with Ego that I was born in Lebanon and lived there till the age of 27, I knew Alexandre Domas and Charles Dickens and "Gulliver's Travels" through arabic translations, and that in my mountain village, the village of my ancestors, I enjoyed the joys of childhood and heard some of the stories I will be telling in my writings. So how would I forget Lebanon? How can I be separate from it one day? But on the other side, I live since 22 years in France, I drink its water and wine, and my toes tough its old stone roads, and I write my books in its language so it can not be a foreign land to me.
Am I then half French and half Lebanese? Never! An identity can not be divided to two or three parts nor to separate zones. I do not have several identities, I possess one identity made of elements in a special combination that is different from one person to the other.
Sometimes, after I finish a detailed explanation of the precise reasons which push me to the complete adoption of all my affiliations, someone comes near me, puts his hand on my shoulder and whispers to me asking: "you are right in what you've said, but tell me, how do you really feel deep inside you?"
A lot of times, this question made me smile, but today I no longer do as the question reveals a widespread dangerous point of view. When I am being asked what I am "deep inside me", the hypothesis is that deep inside each individual there is only one single affiliation that counts that is consider the real truth, the essence born with us which is not able to change. It is as if all that is there, the life of the free man, his personal, priorities, and affiliations; i.e. in one word a man's life, does not count. When we push people to "declare an identity", what is often happening nowadays, we ask them to look deep inside themselves for this "primary alleged affiliation" that is generally religious, nationa, ethnic, or racial in nature and defend it in front of others.
loula, Nov 9, 2007 @ 23:26
Am I then half French and half Lebanese? Never! An identity can not be divided to two or three parts nor to separate zones. I do not have several identities, I possess one identity made of elements in a special combination that is different from one person to the other.
Sometimes, after I finish a detailed explanation of the precise reasons which push me to the complete adoption of all my affiliations, someone comes near me, puts his hand on my shoulder and whispers to me asking: "you are right in what you've said, but tell me, how do you really feel deep inside you?"
A lot of times, this question made me smile, but today I no longer do as the question reveals a widespread dangerous point of view. When I am being asked what I am "deep inside me", the hypothesis is that deep inside each individual there is only one single affiliation that counts that is consider the real truth, the essence born with us which is not able to change. It is as if all that is there, the life of the free man, his personal, priorities, and affiliations; i.e. in one word a man's life, does not count. When we push people to "declare an identity", what is often happening nowadays, we ask them to look deep inside themselves for this "primary alleged affiliation" that is generally religious, nationa, ethnic, or racial in nature and defend it in front of others.
loula, Nov 9, 2007 @ 23:26
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Nov 9, 2007 @ 23:30
There is a French edition of the book. Here is a synopsis:
Les Identit?s meurtri?res, 1998. Partant d'une question anodine qu'on lui a souvent pos?e, Amin Maalouf s'interroge sur la notion d'identit?, sur les passions qu'elle suscite, sur ses d?rives meurtri?res. Pourquoi est-il si difficile d'assumer en toute libert? ses diverses appartenances ? Pourquoi faut-il, en cette fin de si?cle, que l'affirmation de soi s'accompagne si souvent de la n?gation d'autrui ? Nos soci?t?s seront-elles ind?finiment soumises aux tensions, aux d?cha?nements de violence, pour la seule raison que les ?tres qui s'y c?toient n'ont pas tous la m?me religion, la m?me couleur de peau, la m?me culture d'origine ? Y aurait-il une loi de la nature ou une loi de l'Histoire qui condamne les hommes ? s'entre-tuer au nom de leur identit? ? C'est parce qu'il refuse cette fatalit? que l'auteur a choisi d'?crire Les Identit?s meurtri?res, un livre de sagesse et de lucidit?, d'inqui?tude mais aussi d'espoir.
Les Identit?s meurtri?res, 1998. Partant d'une question anodine qu'on lui a souvent pos?e, Amin Maalouf s'interroge sur la notion d'identit?, sur les passions qu'elle suscite, sur ses d?rives meurtri?res. Pourquoi est-il si difficile d'assumer en toute libert? ses diverses appartenances ? Pourquoi faut-il, en cette fin de si?cle, que l'affirmation de soi s'accompagne si souvent de la n?gation d'autrui ? Nos soci?t?s seront-elles ind?finiment soumises aux tensions, aux d?cha?nements de violence, pour la seule raison que les ?tres qui s'y c?toient n'ont pas tous la m?me religion, la m?me couleur de peau, la m?me culture d'origine ? Y aurait-il une loi de la nature ou une loi de l'Histoire qui condamne les hommes ? s'entre-tuer au nom de leur identit? ? C'est parce qu'il refuse cette fatalit? que l'auteur a choisi d'?crire Les Identit?s meurtri?res, un livre de sagesse et de lucidit?, d'inqui?tude mais aussi d'espoir.
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There is a French edition of the book. Here is a synopsis:
Les Identit?s meurtri?res, 1998. Partant d'une question anodine qu'on lui a souvent pos?e, Amin Maalouf s'interroge sur la notion d'identit?, sur les passions qu'elle suscite, sur ses d?rives meurtri?res. Pourquoi est-il si difficile d'assumer en toute libert? ses diverses appartenances ? Pourquoi faut-il, en cette fin de si?cle, que l'affirmation de soi s'accompagne si souvent de la n?gation d'autrui ? Nos soci?t?s seront-elles ind?finiment soumises aux tensions, aux d?cha?nements de violence, pour la seule raison que les ?tres qui s'y c?toient n'ont pas tous la m?me religion, la m?me couleur de peau, la m?me culture d'origine ? Y aurait-il une loi de la nature ou une loi de l'Histoire qui condamne les hommes ? s'entre-tuer au nom de leur identit? ? C'est parce qu'il refuse cette fatalit? que l'auteur a choisi d'?crire Les Identit?s meurtri?res, un livre de sagesse et de lucidit?, d'inqui?tude mais aussi d'espoir.
loula, Nov 9, 2007 @ 23:30
Les Identit?s meurtri?res, 1998. Partant d'une question anodine qu'on lui a souvent pos?e, Amin Maalouf s'interroge sur la notion d'identit?, sur les passions qu'elle suscite, sur ses d?rives meurtri?res. Pourquoi est-il si difficile d'assumer en toute libert? ses diverses appartenances ? Pourquoi faut-il, en cette fin de si?cle, que l'affirmation de soi s'accompagne si souvent de la n?gation d'autrui ? Nos soci?t?s seront-elles ind?finiment soumises aux tensions, aux d?cha?nements de violence, pour la seule raison que les ?tres qui s'y c?toient n'ont pas tous la m?me religion, la m?me couleur de peau, la m?me culture d'origine ? Y aurait-il une loi de la nature ou une loi de l'Histoire qui condamne les hommes ? s'entre-tuer au nom de leur identit? ? C'est parce qu'il refuse cette fatalit? que l'auteur a choisi d'?crire Les Identit?s meurtri?res, un livre de sagesse et de lucidit?, d'inqui?tude mais aussi d'espoir.
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Nov 10, 2007 @ 17:07
Aaaagggh Davide, I'm so sorry I had to miss it again. I was involved in organizing the Rotaract Charity Ice Party and we had a meeting that evening which ran way too late until 22h. I promise to come next time, I have so many books to share by now.
Book lovers unite! :)
Book lovers unite! :)
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Aaaagggh Davide, I'm so sorry I had to miss it again. I was involved in organizing the Rotaract Charity Ice Party and we had a meeting that evening which ran way too late until 22h. I promise to come next time, I have so many books to share by now.
Book lovers unite! :)
parisdepaul, Nov 10, 2007 @ 17:07
Book lovers unite! :)
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Nov 10, 2007 @ 22:50
Dear Davide,
Promise I'm there next time around .... ok, my excuse is "the over 40's" or last time, parents evenig at my daughters school...
Big hug & xxx H. and see you real soon!
Promise I'm there next time around .... ok, my excuse is "the over 40's" or last time, parents evenig at my daughters school...
Big hug & xxx H. and see you real soon!
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Dear Davide,
Promise I'm there next time around .... ok, my excuse is "the over 40's" or last time, parents evenig at my daughters school...
Big hug & xxx H. and see you real soon!
SWISS, Nov 10, 2007 @ 22:50
Promise I'm there next time around .... ok, my excuse is "the over 40's" or last time, parents evenig at my daughters school...
Big hug & xxx H. and see you real soon!
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Nov 10, 2007 @ 22:59
...pictures?...am I missing something? ...;-) (nt)
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...pictures?...am I missing something? ...;-) (nt)
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Nov 11, 2007 @ 10:36
I'm still digesting this idea brought by Davide:
"I’m not defined by the things I do. I define things I do, instead, in the way I’m doing them".
Thinking about it while working today; thinking as well how this could apply to the humanitarian aid workers of the story I presented thursday, "Asmara and the lost causes" by the french writer Jean-Christophe Rufin... Thank you to the one who appreciated the debate and friendly fed it!
Very nice evening indeed!
Aude
"I’m not defined by the things I do. I define things I do, instead, in the way I’m doing them".
Thinking about it while working today; thinking as well how this could apply to the humanitarian aid workers of the story I presented thursday, "Asmara and the lost causes" by the french writer Jean-Christophe Rufin... Thank you to the one who appreciated the debate and friendly fed it!
Very nice evening indeed!
Aude
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I'm still digesting this idea brought by Davide:
"I’m not defined by the things I do. I define things I do, instead, in the way I’m doing them".
Thinking about it while working today; thinking as well how this could apply to the humanitarian aid workers of the story I presented thursday, "Asmara and the lost causes" by the french writer Jean-Christophe Rufin... Thank you to the one who appreciated the debate and friendly fed it!
Very nice evening indeed!
Aude
Virgule, Nov 11, 2007 @ 10:36
"I’m not defined by the things I do. I define things I do, instead, in the way I’m doing them".
Thinking about it while working today; thinking as well how this could apply to the humanitarian aid workers of the story I presented thursday, "Asmara and the lost causes" by the french writer Jean-Christophe Rufin... Thank you to the one who appreciated the debate and friendly fed it!
Very nice evening indeed!
Aude
Virgule, Nov 11, 2007 @ 10:36
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