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...this age of limits was still in some respects an age of exploration. The '70s were when the '60s hit home. Head shops came to suburbia. Mom took yoga. And there were days when all the world was Oh! Calcutta! As experiments do, some ended in disaster, some in the cheesy solipsisms of the Me decade. All the same, by the simple pressure of new possibilities, lives were refashioned, and not just into life-styles. Women, gays, blacks all decided to take seriously that stuff about the pursuit of happiness. Every week, when Mary Tyler Moore threw her hat into...
James spent last summer working for Mother Teresa in her Calcutta, India Clinic. In the mornings, she had the opportunity to speak to Mother Theresa...
...watched coverage of the death of Diana with sadness, and although I am not religious, I wept watching the funeral of Mother Teresa. A billboard in Calcutta bore the apt legend: MOTHER, 1910-ETERNITY. I feel that Mother should have been accorded a special commemorative issue of her own, with her wonderful face on the cover. Both were great women, but Mother Teresa was truly a living saint. BONNY LUSTED Cape Town...
Compassion takes up only a tiny space in most people's lives, but that was what Mother Teresa lived and breathed every moment of her life. She could give, endlessly, without the expectation of receiving anything but gratitude from her congregation of the poor, sick, dying and abandoned. In Calcutta she was free to live and carry out her life's mission in a state that has for many years been governed by a communist majority. Her successor, Sister Nirmala, was free to give up her Hindu religion and embrace Mother Teresa's philosophy in the Roman Catholic tradition...
...Mother would have nodded, recognizing our need to deliver the tributes, to shed the tears, to try to anoint her as a saint. But then she would point us to many of the people who had come to see her make her final round through the streets of Calcutta. And Mother would say, "The poor are with you still. There is work to be done...