"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them." - Thomas Merton
Song of the Day:
[[[ Follow the Sun - Xavier Rudd ]]]
Yes, many tragic, traumatizing and unsettling events have occurred this month, but the death of François Jacob was not one of them. This is not to say that his death was not sad or unfortunate, but more that he lived a full life, dying at the age of 92 on April 19th and leaving a great legacy. He was a French war hero whose combat wounds forced him to change his career path from surgeon to scientist, a pursuit that led to a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his role in discovering how genes are regulated and how traits are inherited. The New York Times wrote an article upon his death and quoted,""What intrigues me in my life is: How did I come to be what I am?" he wrote in his 1988 autobiography, "The Statue Within." "How did this person develop, this whom I rediscover each morning and to whom I must accomodate myself to the end?""
