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Something timely and timeless to Read this Sunday: Our Ways of Dealing with Pestilence
This is a time for solidarity and hope
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Good morning. Perhaps you have already read this book, La peste (The Plague) or you may have not heard about it. Reading about it myself the other day, I could not believe what I was reading. The words of this visionary author, Albert Camus, writing in the 1940s and its relevance to our current global pandemic crisis is nothing but prophetic.
“There are plagues, and there are victims, and it’s the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.”
“They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.”
The Irish writer Conor Cruise O’Brien has called La peste “a sermon of hope.” It’s worth revisiting that hopefulness – the spirit that prompts the Camus’s narrator to declare, famously, that plagues remind us “there are more things to admire in men than to despise.”
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Coronavirus Crisis and the Spirit of Kindness, Generosity and Volunteerism
‘Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see’- Mark Twain
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Coronavirus Crisis and the Spirit of Kindness, Generosity and Volunteerism
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Hope you can hear me!!
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Spring is here in the Northern Hemisphere. But while the blossom and leaves are emerging, butterflies, ladybirds and bees are beginning to dazzle us with their beautiful dancing routines, many of us are staying in to try and halt the global spread of the Covid-19 virus, by self-isolating and social-distancing, actions that are in total contrast to our human nature.
Wherever you live, we hope you, your family, friends and colleagues are safe, healthy and staying calm amidst the uncertainty.
In moments of isolation and fear it is important to foster relationships of care and solidarity. In this spirit, it is my sincere hope that we still can remember and recall the beauty, wisdom and the hopeful message of this day, 20 MARCH.
Yes, Lest We Forget
- Reflection on a remarkable prediction
- Have We lost the Art of Knowing What it Means to Be Human?
- In praise of cooperation as an insurance at time of crisis: Lessons as coronavirus spreads around the globe
- In a time of panic, please don’t forget to be kind.
- “In a world where you can be anything, be kind.”