BOOKS LIVE AS DO YOU AND I
You go to a cemetery and the sign says. Joan Smith 1945 - 2015 Mother of two and all round awesome person. My question is - did that person ever live? What was her legacy? Most people think children are their legacy…. hymn, so if that is true tell me three stories about your grandparents…. struggling - well you are not alone. Most people can’t do it.
Yet I walk into the Old Joanine Library in Coimbra in Portugal and pick up an old book written in the 17th century and can immediately be placed in that persons life, views, way they see the world. its stunning. That’s why should at least blog, but I always make sure my most profound stuff is in an ISBN catalogued booked held at various libraries.
That’s the way to create legacy.
What stuns me about the Coimbra library, located in the University is its stunning facades. Take the three ceiling paintings for example in the main section. The second section spoke to Landi and i - It said Honour, Virtue, Fortune and Reputation, the four values of the University. It reminded us of our five values in our family crest we had completed in 2014, Love, Beauty, Travel, Freedom and Fun. This is what we live by. We also now most people have never thought of their values and if they have, it’s not normally theirs it is their parents or teachers values they are living.
We sat down last year and completed our own and we live by them, and make every decision by them.
One of the oldest books is the Latin Bible (1462), just 48 lines. I couldn’t read that but transcribed it has all of what is relevant and important in it. Even the bible has ‘white noise’ in my feeling. If you come to Portugal then visit this place, commissioned in 1717 by King Joao. Look at the symbology, the works of art, the clock in the square, the statue of the King and listen to the often played haunting fado that seeps up from the streets of magical old Coimbra below and you too will be transposed into a time past, when chivalry abounded.
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Question: Do you know what your core values are? If not - now might be a good time to write them down. Truth: Most people leave no legacy. Writing is one way of leaving a legacy that could last centuries.