Florentine Camarata LO4878

Barry Mallis (bmallis@smtp.markem.com)
15 Jan 1996 10:37:03 U

Reply to: RE>Florentine Camarata LO4843

Ray:

Your observation reminded me of the Italian movie, The Garden of the
Finzi-Continis from many years ago. In one scene, someone enters into the
named family's dining room to warn them of the approach of the Gestapo-like
round up of Italian Jews. The family, in that moment, is in the midst of a
Passover seder of very untraditional proportions.

The depicted family consist of thinkers, readers, experimenters. Our lives
are built, like it or not, upon changes seething around us. Most changes are
external from day to day. If we are fortunate, we can actually reflect on
those moments in our physical lives when we die and are born into a new
presence, crossing an ineffable threshold.

In organizations, there are a some Finzi-Continis who advance the thought
process in sensitive, meaningful, productive and humane ways. And what
appeared to those people surrounding such innovators/iconoclasts to be one
"thing" actually became another, unforeseen step in the endless unfolding of
humankind. Thanks for your thoughts, Ray.

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Barry Mallis
bmallis@markem.com