By Maria Popova
“I always felt that someone could be saved by someone else,” said James Baldwin in one of his best stories. “I know we don't save it all the time. But I also know we save it for a while.”
It happens a lot because we often choose the wrong person to be our Savior, so he just tries to save someone who doesn't want to be saved. But the saviors, the truly saved, live among us – what John Belger called “revenge heroes,” what Leonard Cohen called “the balanced monsters of love.”
Tender and Exsurant at the same time, The lighthouse keeper (public library) By Mexican Writer Eugenio Fernández vázquez and artist Mariana Villanueva Segonueva Leave this story of the Sea of the cruel night, wake up the light of those who do not belong to the sea, who always welcome “everyone who finds himself lost and alone.”
Page after visual page, we see the lighthouse keeper throwing bodies into the body and soul. .
The bottom line of this is that gracious compassion is a burning question of what saves a Savior: How does one give so much to so many so that they can use that precious amount to enter?
“Relationship is the basic truth of this country,” wrote the Indian policeman and philosopher Tagore (that the guardian of Segovia who is the guardian of Segovia is very similar). Therefore, that the relationship is revealed to have the spirit of the Savior: the Moon “casts a spell from above” to feed, but who also needs his mercy of revenge that marks all the great relationships that mark all; The Moon, which disappears but always returns, is always changing and eternal, like a great love.
If you too could use a source of light in these dark times, here it is.
