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“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Losing a Friend
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“Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
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“Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship,” Seneca counseled in considering true and false friendship, “but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.” To lose a friend who has earned such wholehearted admission into your soul is one of life’s most devastating sorrows. Whatever shape the loss takes — death, distance, the various desertions of loyalty and love that hollow out the heart — it is one of life’s most devastating sorrows. It is also one of life’s most absolute inevitabilities — we will each lose a beloved friend at one point or another, to one cause or another.
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No one has articulated the disorientation of that inevitability more beautifully than Little Prince author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (June 29, 1900–July 31, 1944) in Wind, Sand, and Stars (public library) — that endlessly rewarding collection of his autobiographical vignettes, philosophical inquiries, and poetic reflections on the nature of existence, published just as WWII was breaking out and four years before The Little Prince, which Saint-Exupéry would dedicate to his best friend in what remains perhaps the most beautiful book dedication ever composed.
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With an eye to his life as a pilot, Saint-Exupéry considers with unsentimental sweetness the common experience of losing fellow pilots to accident or war. In a passage that radiates universal insight into the loss of a friend, whatever the circumstance, he writes:
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    Bit by bit… it comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this one garden is forever locked against us. And at that moment begins our true mourning, which, though it may not be rending, is yet a little bitter. For nothing, in truth, can replace that companion. Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.
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    So life goes on. For years we plant the seed, we feel ourselves rich; and then come other years when time does its work and our plantation is made sparse and thin. One by one, our comrades slip away, deprive us of their shade.
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One of Saint-Exupéry’s original watercolors for The Little Prince.
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Three years later, Saint-Exupéry would offer the most poetic consolation there is, only consolation there is for this existential sorrow, in the final pages of The Little Prince — a book very much about reconciling the great unbidden gift of loving a friend with the inevitability of losing that friend. In the closing scene, the little prince, about to depart for his home planet, tells the heartsick pilot unwilling to lose him and his golden laugh:
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    All men have the stars… but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For other they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars are silent. You — you alone — will have the stars as no one else has them… In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night… And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content to have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure… And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky!
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Months later, much to the sorrow of his own friends and the millions of strangers who had come to love him through his books, Saint-Exupéry himself would become one of the lost pilots, vanishing over the Mediterranean Sea on a reconnaissance mission, his stardust silently returned to the stars that made him.
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Couple with trailblazing astronomer Maria Mitchell on how we co-create one another and re-create ourselves through friendship, then revisit Saint-Exupéry on love and mortality, what the desert taught him about the meaning of life, and how a simple human smile saved his life during the war.
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Revision as of 22:39, 16 August 2021

Neela Nurseries notes jump point started 2019-09-16


2021-06-22

Topics noted:

gdbstl.cmd: 

  target extended localhost:4242

toolchain.mk 

APP_HEXFILE = $(BUILDDIR)/$(PROJECT).hex
GDB_ELF = $(BUILDDIR)/$(PROJECT).elf
OOCD_CFG = oocd.cfg
GDB_OOCD_CFG = gdboocd.cmd
GDB_STL_CFG = gdbstl.cmd
SERIAL_RAW != echo -e "$(SERIAL)"

write: $(APP_HEXFILE) write_ocd

write_ocd:
#	openocd -s $(BOARDDIR) -f $(OOCD_CFG) -c "hla_serial $(SERIAL); program $(APP_HEXFILE) verify reset exit"
	openocd -s $(BOARDDIR) -f $(OOCD_CFG) -d3 -c "hla_serial $(SERIAL); program $(APP_HEXFILE) verify reset exit"

write_stl:
	st-flash --serial=$(SERIAL_RAW) --reset --format ihex write $(APP_HEXFILE)

gdb: $(GDB_ELF) gdb_ocd

gdb_ocd:
	$(TRGT)gdb -q $(shell pwd)/$(GDB_ELF) -cd $(BOARDDIR) -ex "target remote | openocd -f oocd.cfg -c 'hla_serial $(SERIAL); gdb_port pipe'" -x $(GDB_OOCD_CFG)

gdb_stl:
	$(TRGT)gdb -q $(shell pwd)/$(GDB_ELF) -cd $(TOOLCHAIN) -x ./$(GDB_STL_CFG)

serial:
	picocom -b 115200 /dev/serial/by-id/usb-STMicroelectronics_STLINK-V3_$(SERIAL_RAW)-if02

gdboocd.cmd: 

monitor stm32f0x.cpu configure -rtos chibios
monitor reset halt


--- 2021 mid-June ordered STM32 dev boards: 

 2	NUCLEO-F401RE	3	$13.55	$40.65
 3	NUCLEO-L432KC	3	$10.54	$31.62

--- Python and barcode scanning,


  • Unix cut command example:
   $ grep -n zzz *cal-419* | grep 'NO2 averaged A-to-D' | cut -d" " -f 9

  $ grep -n zzz *cal-421* | grep 'NO2 averaged' >> z--cal-4-2-1--no2-averaged-a-to-d-counts-to-plot.txt



^ QCustomPlot references

Notes and links relating to QCustomPlot sofware, second link here is to the starting or main documentation page for QCustomPlot classes and their relation to Qt classes and code framework:

Code snippet from basic plotting tutorial: 

// add title layout element:
customPlot->plotLayout()->insertRow(0);
customPlot->plotLayout()->addElement(0, 0, new QCPTextElement(customPlot, "Way too many graphs in one plot", QFont("sans", 12, QFont::Bold)));


2019-09-23 . . .


Plot building at community garden:


^ Local ecosystems and geology


2019-12-19 Thursday

https://www.stevesupergardens.com/shop/aloe-littlefawn-new-hybrid/



^ plant descriptions to move to NN page

Entry:

    French lavender starts in four-inch starter pots, for sale by Milwaukie area gardener. Selling for three dollars ($3) a start.

    A Mediterranean native, French lavendar (lavendula stoechas) once established is extremely drought tolerant. Under normal conditions in Portland area, no need to water or fertilize this plant after its first year in the ground.

    Likes full sun, and open space with good air circulation. Attracts bumble bees, honeybees, and orchard mason bees.

    This plant grows for several years, it is perennial. Older plants may need be replaced from time to time, if a larger branch or branches should break. Slow to moderate growth rate. Not always able to fill in a void if a branch breaks near the plant's base.

    Cash-only sales and PayPal accepted. If you have questions about these plants feel free to write us and ask.



^ Plant Cultivars of Note


^ Harry Potter and AllClassical dot Org

11:59 am - Sunday, November 3rd, 2019

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Fawkes the Phoenix

Williams, John

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Gustavo Dudamel

DG 002993902
Purchase

11:54 am - Sunday, November 3rd, 2019

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Original Score): Har

Williams, John

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Gustavo Dudamel

DG 002993902
Purchase


^ movie and pop culture


^ Computer Security


^ Good lunch or dinner idea


^ 2021-06-30 docker how-to work

Wednesday docker work . . .


Padar Island, Indonesia Kogel Bay, South Africa


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