Morning meeting (Pablito) and individual work – D26

For the morning meeting, Pablito showed us a very interesting and touching video about Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest Holocaust survivor. Her passion for music is impressive, but even more impressive is her willingness to live, in every day of her life. Just enjoying every moment, having no heart feelings or hate for anyone, not even the Germans. Pablito also showed us a page, in which we can find a large number of classic music authors.

Emotional moment watching Alice's video

Here are the video of Alice Herz and the page for classic music.

After the morning meeting we had individual work. To be honest, I didn’t use it as I should, since I procrastinated a lot during this time.

Passion for Books – D3

84 Charing Cross Road. A 1970 book, later adapted to film in 1987, about a writer who is passionate for old, rare, secondhand, British books. The story takes place in New York and London, and it develops from the correspondence of this writer, Helene Hanff, with Frank Doel, an antiquarian bookseller for Marks & Co. in England.

What I found interesting of this film is to see other people’s passion for something. Whether that passion is for books, films, dancing, sports, economics, or politics, it doesn’t matter. What matters is the use of that passion into our life, how do we make it a part of our life, and how does that make a difference. It’s rare to find a true passion, because one can have many interests, but a true passion is something hard to find. I wouldn’t dare to tell that books are my passion, although I love them, specially old books, books that tell you a story, with dedications or side notes and comments, and be able to imagine the story of with that. Can you imagine this new world of ideas and stories that every book can tell you?