We are passing through unusual times. The code of behaviour to other people have changed. On top of it, the flowering of an anti-racist movement has added yet another glittered layer to the emotions and behaviour.
The american slang, Take Care, never meant much, as it was a casual good-bye, to which you can add now, Stay Safe, yet another nonsense parlance.
So it was nice to come across in BBC Culture an article about Sa'di, an iranin poet of 13th century of the Common Era.
The american slang, Take Care, never meant much, as it was a casual good-bye, to which you can add now, Stay Safe, yet another nonsense parlance.
So it was nice to come across in BBC Culture an article about Sa'di, an iranin poet of 13th century of the Common Era.
“Ask not,” he admonished, “a dervish in poor circumstances, and in the distress of a year of famine, how he feels, unless thou art ready to apply a salve to his wound or to provide him with a maintenance.” Sa’di also believed that “a liberal man who eats and bestows is better than a devotee who fasts and hoards”.