• Nos duo turba sumus – Ovid, Metamorphoses
Two is more than one.
And the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." Genesis 2:18
Several translations say "companion." I love the implication in that word of breaking bread together.
"Ezer" is the Hebrew word for helper, help meet. Scriptorians tell us sixteen of the twenty-one occurrences of ezer in the Old Testament refer to God. Although servant God, servant people, is a persistent biblical current, "ezer" implies overall equality rather than the status of a slave or a servant.
Two is more than one. Two is the start of community; the beginning of shared life and the start of the end of loneliness. Two initiates living the way God intended for humanity.
Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matters more … Let us sit down soon to eat with all those who haven't eaten; let us spread great tablecloths, put salt in lakes of the world, set up planetary bakeries, tables with strawberries in snow, and a plate like the moon itself from which we can all eat. For now I ask no more than the justice of eating. Pablo Neruda, from The Great Tablecloth / El Gran Mantel
Eating together is equalizing and leveling; it often makes class and economic distinctions irrelevant. A shared meal or snack sometimes becomes a cross-cultural experience!
From "Please come to Boston" by Dave Loggins (RIP)
Please come to L.A. to live forever
California life alone is just too hard to build.
• 1x1=1 12=1
• Two starts something greater than itself:
• 2x2=4 22=4
ah, a good post, two can be the start of so much can't they be? FMF15 (yes I'm late, took me a while to get it written). :)
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