Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – A Day In The Life – 1918–2008
Thank you for showing us all what it was like to live a day in your life.
As a survivor of Stalin’s labor camps, you shared with the world the resilience of the human spirit in the worst of circumstances.
Thank you for sharing your protests.
Thank you for speaking out when you knew there were worse things than exile.
Thank you for not being silent, so that others might not suffer the harsh realities you faced.
Thank you for sharing with all of us some of your important perspectives.
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On a related note: I’ve been watching Citizen Kane a couple times in the last few days, listening to the Peter Bogdanovich and Roger Ebert soundtrack commentaries, and these ideas came to me:
Sometimes I think people perceive genius to be a collection of rare and exquisitely talented gifts.
That may be true. But more often, genius may be found in people who inexhaustibly use the limited gifts they have for greater purposes.
Whatever gifts you have, no matter how small, use them to the best of your intents.
Never stop running.
Never give up.
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This, like most things you write, resonates with me. I have seen so many examples of people doing more than others thought possible because a single person believed they could. You reminded me of this when you wrote of limited gifts. Most of us are limited. Yet each of us adds a unique beauty to the world. The worst sin is the one that stiffles that unique beauty because it can’t be categorized or easily understood.
Your posts remind me of that. Thank you for your continued reminders.