The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday June 29th, 2022
Antoine de Saint Exupery: Solitude and Solidarity by Rene Wadlow
Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900-1944), whose birth anniversary we note on 29 June was a cosmopolitan humanist in the Stoic tradition. He belonged to the rural nobility of France and could have used the title of Count but never did. His mother, however, did use the title of Countess and raised her five children in a large property in central France, near Lyon, her husband having died shortly after the birth of her fifth child. Saint Ex as he is usually called was the middle child and the older boy. He always recalled the calm atmosphere of the property where he grew up, “spoiled” by his mother and older sisters.
The Saint Exupéry family was traditionally Roman Catholic, and his mother was very attracted to Catholic practice. Antoine, however, by temperament and intellectually grew early to hold views close to those of Henri Bergson, a belief in an impersonal cosmic energy that was the motor of evolution. Some would call this cosmic energy “God” though Saint Ex rarely did. However, out of respect for his mother, he never expressed anti-clerical ideas. A reflective youth, he was often called “dreamy” and was most at ease in solitude. Solitary reflection in a state of harmony with Nature was his character throughout life, and in this he was close to the Greek and Roman Stoics.
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If Then #poem by Jan Sand
“This or that can be something of a smear
When definitions are not clear.
Midnight may erase a day, but time does not pause,
Nor the previous disappear.”
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A fistful of cactus #29 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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