The Trivial and the Tremendous
13/July/2007 Filed in:
JottingsBusy lifting what has survived of our potato crop, always an enjoyable actvity, and an excellent way of postponing more difficult tasks. Spent the rest of the morning adding new items to our online shop and musing on the English sense of humour which does not always translate well, as our email "postbag" testifies. Finally, abandoned trivia for the tremendous, in the literal sense of the word: trying to write letters of sympathy to friends who have lost people dear to them. Impossible to forget that bleak, bleak line of Racine's, which he puts into the mouth of Mithridate, "Un seul être vous manque, et tout le monde est depeuplé." No point in trying to dodge that with words of conventional piety; but we can pray that the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, will pour his balm on the wounded hearts and battered spirits of those afflicted by suffering and death.