The Fundamentals #16 Simone Weil on God and Us and Love and Colette on Books

Colette was a great French writer and, IMHO, an important libertarian, who was born 150 years ago today.

She wrote: “Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me.”

In Colette’s greatest work, her novel Gigi, something that started as the prostitution of a courtesan leads to marriage and love.

I describe that in my own way here:

My words above Collette’s image.

Another acclaimed French writer, mystic philosopher, Simone Weil, believed: “God created beings capable of love from all possible distances …….. and God himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance.”

I paraphrase or transcreate this thought to become: “We are made capable of love all the way to God.”

Filmed at a church in Melbourne.

Geoff Fox, 28th January, 2023, Down Under

Simone Weil and another transcreation by me of her thought.

The Fundamentals #9 Managing Our Times

Amanda Woods of San Diego is young and smart.

I am older. But I learn from and with her.

Martin Luther King Jr, born on this date in 1929 taught that “…… the wealth of cultural and technological progress in America is a result of the commonwealth of inpouring contributions.”

This human commonwealth exists across races, times and places.

When it is shared in freedom and justice, it can grow.

When it become tyrannous, it dies.

Geoff Fox, 16th January, 2021, Terra Nullius