Naval war museum July 19,Newport

We visited a display of art by the Naval War Museum. The Thomas Benton they own, stood out. "Launching"was the name of the work. A Thomas Benton, is so stylized that anyone can spot it across the room, once they know his style. I loved it, it truly epitomized the war effort.



There were other oils, that were great, such as the recruiting work that the museum has from World War 1, that was used also in World War 2. The oils of the battles in World War 2, remind me of a swarm of bees in nature, trying to attack. All of nature is related when you think of it.



An interesting little aside, about human nature. A woman called a company to complain that she fell down., on their property and broke her wrist. When asked to provide information about her operation, resulting from the fall, she hung up, saying quickly, "I have decided not to have the operation." What prompts people to get so desparate, that they try to embzzle money under false pretenses, from large stores, or for that matter from others?



Even a joke about men that went around on the internet this week, was so critical of men, that I wondered how could any woman that passed this on, be happy with her husband. It was not even funny, it was just a whining, belittling piece of information, about the arrogance and utter studpidity of men. I for one can not believe that some of the women, whose husbands give them luxury life status, could even consider passing this along.

here is the missing picture

Here is the 17 year old girl, that is still inside of me. She never leaves me, even though I am changing inside and out. Why is this? Why do we remain eternally young inside , yet the world does not know this. It reminds me of the old man story that is traveling the net. No one knows who or what he was in his life, because his now appearance throws the world off. It touches the souls of the people who pass it on, maybe because they too, are in their aging years.

July 19, 2007 browzing Newport, Rhode Island

Busy this week. Tuesday night we went to a short lecture by Mary McFadden, designer of fabulous gowns. She talked about patterns in nature, showing slides of locations across the world. A few of her gowns were on display at Rosecliff. Met some new interesting people.

Wednesday night, went to the opening of the Vanderbilt time share hotel in Newport, Rhode Island. You can buy 6 weeks in the hotel for $45,000. It is yours forever, and you can sell it when you want to. The hotel will be operated eventually by the owners, and your stuff will be stored and brought out for your 6 week stint. This seems to be a trend for the future, rather than owning in different places, people are buying shares of homes, and hotels. The Ritz is big into this idea. We met Barbara and Richard at the cocktail party, joining them for dinner at Lucia on Thames street later. Joe came over and convinced us to look at his father's new condominium on the water,in Newport, one more time. So we will probably do that tomorrow. We think our home in Osterville, on the Cape is going to be sold in a month.

Tonight we are going to the war college event at the museum here in Newport. Have to run back to work this morning, returning tonight with Mr Ambassador, our grandson Kenny, who knows everyone in Newport, Portsmouth, and Middletown, Rhode Island, from his exposure at the Portsmouth Abby School. He loves Newport, and he is going to to to Salve Regina University here.

books and thoughts

My image button is not working, so I will have to post later. I am thinking again about Wilson's Consilience, it is interesting how professors at the same school are not aware of the work of their fellow professors. I read an article by a Harvard professor in a professional real estate magazine about settingwhat I deem," artificial goals for housing", answered it, with the thought that the author should read Wilson., (who is also Harvard affiliated) That was to no avail, as usual. I did hope to get an opinion back , but, I guess my letter was tossed in the trash. But, it does give rise to an interesting thought, "Should we be aware by summary, and exposition of the ideas and publications of other professors that are not in our field.



Consilience, demands that we have our eyes over the horizon and know what other scholoars are thinking, publishing, and putting out to the world, otherwise how can we grow. In essence this lack of interdisciplinary knowledge can be considered wearing horse blinders. How to diseminate the rapid learning we are absorbing, and not absorbing today, is something that presents a challenge to us as educators also. Sometimes what we are teaching is outmoded.



I am also interested in the search for God, and loved Francis Collins Book, The Language of God. I attach here the link for your perusal, if it does not work, just type it in the browzer.

Click here: I’ve found God, says man who cracked the genome - Times Online



My grandson was just assigned the following book for summer reading to enter the freshman class at Salve Regina University , Newport ,Rhode Island. It looks like a valuable book for my interests, so it will be on my reading list shortly. Meanwhile I have Genghis Khan, waiting in the background, while I finish, John Templeton, which I love. He was a magnificent man !



Recently I read somewhere that the thinking and teachings of Freud are being brought into question. It is hoped that I can find out what that is about and talk about it with you.



The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life (Paperback) by Armand M. Nicholi Jr. (Author) "Although C. S. Lewis, a full generation younger than Sigmund Freud, embraced Freud's atheism during the first half of his life, he eventually rejected that..." (more) Key Phrases: spiritual worldview, changed worldview, hallucinatory psychosis, New Testament, Oskar Pfister, Jesus Christ (more...)

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.