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About Love & Wisdom: 37 Timeless Reflections
Product Description "These beautiful words and images gathered by Alexandra de Borchgrave are a reminder of what is precious and eternal in our common culture of life." --David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist and author of New York Times best seller, Body of Lies The 37 timeless reflections in this book have survived through space and time, offering inspiration. Love & Wisdom is a heartening, emotive and enchanting book, a wonderful gift that will bring comfort and hope. The uplifting, inspirational quotes, that are as relevant today as they were centuries ago, are framed by an extraordinary combination of exquisite sixteenth century art from the Smithsonian Institution's Freer|Sackler Gallery, and stunning contemporary images of the heavens, many from National Geographic Creative. Review A Book for All Seasons--and Reasons: Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave's Love and Wisdom: 37 Timeless Reflections If you are heart-broken, remorseful, furious at someone else or just plain down on your luck, a new and very lifting elixir is available. Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave, author and photojournalist, has produced a remarkable volume of verse and thoughts that deal with precisely those feelings--and genuinely make them easier to deal with and put aside. Love and Wisdom: 37 Timeless Reflections offers the reader words of wisdom and comfort as well as both magnificent sixteenth century art and modern photographs of the skies. Merely thumbing through the book offers uplifting admonitions from thinkers through the ages: from St. Augustine of Hippo ("Since love grows within you, so beauty grows, for love is the beauty of the soul") to Leo Tolstoy ("Let us forgive each other, only then will we live in peace") to Confucius ("Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it"). The power and beauty of such verse are enhanced when they are read with a backdrop of classic works from Muhammad al-Mashhadi (a 13th Century artist) and the Reign of Jahangir (early 17th Century). All somehow--and quite incredibly--result in smiles, cheer, and even a few joyful tears when read.This I discovered as I poured through Love and Wisdom during a recent lunch with the author. Any discussion with Alexandra will inevitably come around to her beloved husband, best-selling author and crusading journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave. After 47 years of marriage, Alexandra was devastated by the death of Arnaud--then the editor emeritus of the Washington Times--in 2015. "I was searching for a way forward after his death," she told me, explaining that she began researching the works of ancient philosophers and concluded "they are remarkably relevant today." Citing the mathematician Pythagoras, Alexandra noted that he believed the number seven is connected to the seven "wandering stars of the moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn." From studying his writings, it was a short hop for Alexandra to divide "Love and Wisdom" into seven sections: Hope, Beauty, Forgiveness, Love, Kindness, Sorrow, and Wisdom. With her trained photographer's eye, however, the author went a step further and added classical pictures from Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art at the Smithsonian Museum. Accordingly, in the section on forgiveness, the powerful words of Lord Buddha--"To understand everything is to forgive everything"--are framed by a beautiful photograph of clouds on what appears to be the verge of a rainy evening. A sunset over a lake is the setting for Virgil's moving verse that "Love conquers all things--let us too surrender to love." In a sense, Love and Wisdom is the lineal heir to If I Found A Wistful Unicorn. Forty years after its publication, long after the deaths of author Ann Ashford and illustrator Bill Drath, this tome of simple verse about love is used frequently at weddings, anniversary celebrations at funerals. The most oft-used
