books and thoughts

Reading this week, "The Queens and Sex"...how the author researched these stories is incredible, delving in to the diaries and notes of many who attended the courts to get the "dirt".



Women suffered, but found ways to find happiness, in the face of grave danger, losing their head in more than one way. Royalty needed to have an heir and it was not always necessary that the new royal be of royal blood, since the Kings masculinity had to be preserved no matter whose heir the new royal turned out to be, as long as the birth of the child appeared to be, the child of royal blood .

Just finished "Consilience", by Edward O. Wilson, this is about the unity of knowledge...intellectual reading rather than relaxing. I happen to agree with the ideas of Wilson a biologist, who esposes the belief that all knowledge is unified. Consilience comes from the interlocking of natural laws that lie beneath everything we create , do, etc. I love his warning, that each advance is also "a prosthesis, an artificial device dependent on advanced expertise and intense continuing management". We frequently meddle, trying to optimize life for everyone, creating artificial environments, to make people equal in status, in education, housing, medicine, etc., but the laws beneath the surface trump us, creating another problem. Think about it!

This is a great book, if you enjoy reading, thinking and postulating your own ideas. Then you will find excitment in this read

I am now trying to figure out how to use YouTube in other ways to present ideas, thoughts and excitement to my blogger. Hope I am successful in this new approach to sharing what is in us, unseen, unexplored, rather than what you meet briefly on the surface.

In my mind, I am still this young seventeen year old girl, but she does not look back at me in the mirror, rather the new person who has evolved over the years, looks back at me, the young girl of many years ago. Say "hello", to the person who is still inside my aging body.