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          Egyptian Antiques History - Male Dominance From 4280 B C E

Male dominance over women has generally been seen as a protective virtue, in which the wife with the children hid in the cave while the husband fought to the death at the cave entrance as the bear or tiger tried to enter. And this has been the tendencies of civilizations around the world, as they have spread out of Africa.  However, the oftentimes realistic view of women has been that this dominance has not always been so loving and protective, but rather that world wide male bondage assumption that the girls belong in the kitchen. Barefoot, pregnant, submissive as ever, and none of this queen for a life nonsense.

This documentary showed that there was a queen Pharaoh who in 4280 B.C.E. had her face chiseled off all important shrines. We see, again and again, a female figure on a wall missing a head, and are told that her son did this. It seems that even 4,280 years before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, women had to remember their place. Her name has been also chiseled out, but it was said to sound like Hapshetsu, as I listened to it. And since then we have had many more powerful and effective leaders who were independtly great by the energy of their own achievements, greater than the men around them in their times.  Firm Margaret Thatcher comes to mind. Mystic leader Joan of Arc. Glorious Cleopatra; Boadicea.

Angelic, light hearted Pocahantas, whose smile brought joy to her serious Englishman, as she would skip and dash around him, and dot love paint on his cheeks. The first nurse, Florence Nightingale. Marie Curie. Eleanor Roosevelt.To name a few, who were more great than those who replaced or were in front of them. Why did this ancient Pharaoh, the first woman to hold the title, find herself in disgrace, even to her son enough that under his instructions, we learn, he had her face chiseled off her monuments of most importance to him, as he knew. Why? It seems, according to research recently released, that the influential backers behind the throne, all male, had felt slighted by the Queen, or Lady Pharaoh, in ways not so much her fault but that she was a woman.

How could the High Priests order around their own household, and yet somehow invert that power to take direction from a woman when they arrived at work in the morning, to report to a woman in court? It was just all too stressful. And so it did not happen again for several thousand years, which counts for a statement about attitude. We know there was later an occasional lady Pharaoh, who came and was soon gone. Hello, goodbye, Cleopatra. Although you wisely made your capital in that Greek city in Egypt, the mighty port Alexandria, built by your great uncle Alexander, through General Ptolmy. Then came Rome. Now, they may be on their way back. And that may be a very historically powerful evolution of us all. It matters much less which national leader is in charge each year in the new Europe, and they now see that a Roman Germanic Slavic Turkish Egypt called Metro Europe is in view, if you have that eagle eye forward. Some, apparently, do. And we applaud them all, whether they are young, mature, or elder boys and girls. Helpmates all, and you trouble makers, time is up, to allow peace to evolve as a series of positives.Derek Dashwood

       Greek Antiques, Amazon Women - Absorbed Into Vast Asia

So, here you are in a Greek antiques shop far north of Athens but still in Greece, in Macedonia. You Hold two figurines: one of a Greek Amazon Female Warrior, the other a model of an princess from Persia. You wonder what these two have in common, so you ask the shop keeper. It is a quiet moment, so he sits you down and makes you a cup of tea, and tells you his story. His ancestors are of the family of those who were close to Alexander the Great. He leans forward and as if in telling a secret, he talks to you of the most amazing story of his life. He must tell his story to one who will understand.  You agree on your understanding and discretion. He tells you he recently met the most amazing relative a man could ever have imagined. He explains that his beautiful young distant cousin is visiting from thousands of miles to the east. She has been given evidence by a swab of her mouth that her greatest grandmother came from this eastern bastion of western Europe.

This golden skinned Asian beauty with blue eyes and streaks of blond in her hair is his distant cousin, he says. She came here as she is curious about this civilization that brought her ancient relative from here. This young woman lives to the east, in the middle of great Asia. A research team discovered her in central Asia, now a medical team up from Athens has also taken a tongue swab from her, my new friend said: her blood, or DNA they called it, and mine match, on our mother’s side.

Thus, again the ancient east meets the ancient west. His cousin from the east in central Asia came to visit his village, and, she hoped, find unknown relatives. He, as did she, can marvel at the idea that she is the serene renewal of a long unproven legend of ancient Greek Amazon women warriors. These really are two distant cousins who look so different.  Yet they both display proof that their greatest grandmothers survived and thrived. The Amazons did not prevail with a victory over the fleet of Persia that battle, and were forced to flee for their lives.

So we marvel while our modern descendant of female warrior blood and her Greek cousin give a shy smile to each other. We should remember that from this small corner of south east Europe while peoples to the north and west still were coming out of caves and down from the trees. These first civilized peoples of Europe lived in Greek columned mansions of far superior buildings and elegance than they had seen, outside of ancient Egypt.

Yet Greece brought ideals of democracy that permeate western Asia to this day. The name of Alexander is spoken with respect as his short reign was honest and beneficial to most. Many men through to the Indus River are named Alexander, or for his wife, daughter of King Darius of Persia, Roxanne. The saying it is all Greek to me may have come as so many languages and cultures adapted to Greek ideals over such a vast area, that any new law was all in Greek to them. There is that feeling for us from the west that here is where it all began.

When the Amazon women were granted their own ship, to be entirely operated by Greek Amazons, it was a great honor. They were treated royally before leaving to defend Athens, once more, from mighty Persia. However, it was not to be, and in all records of this era the mighty navy of Persia swept the Amazon ship northwards away from Greece. They were pursued past Greek Byzantium, and to the far eastern shores of the Black Sea. Here, they had to fight their way east, and fade into into history. It was only recently that Western researchers took a tongue swab from a young girl who lives in a yurt in central Asia. She has blond streaks in her black hair. Her very pretty Mongol face has blue eyes. The scientists featured her on television recently and she was so proud when the swab came back from Germany.

She is of Amazon blood. How proudly she rode the white pony, her mighty white horse like Alexander, around the village circle, all the others cheering her on, her smile so radiant. She, and they, understood that she was a princess from the times of Alexander the Great, whose fabled wife Roxanne came from lands to the south.  And now she has returned over the path of her greatest grandmother, home to her maternal roots. Our new little Roxanne should be treated and welcomed as this wonderful mix of east and west.

The Amazon Warrior Ship was pushed north by the mighty navy of Persia, who then defeated the main Greek Navy but also pursued the Amazon ship to the east coast of the Black Sea. Here, these powerful women, resplendent with jewels and diamonds as well as swords and armor, fought their way east through people still loyal to Persia, and Greek history books tell they passed from history. Until now.

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The amazing stories of Greek Amazon women warriors have always seemed as of legend. However, scientists have shown that there exists today golden haired blue eyed Mongol peoples with DNA matches to these Amazon women. They hold an amazing story of ancient survival against all odds.

Derek Dashwood

Chinese Antiques, Modern China - The Children Show The Way

The British television show I have been watching the past several days has had our camera man and an interpreter follow and listen two young lads through their day, at home and at school. They are unhappy with each other, and we see on the screen what they are saying as they speak. The slightly taller boy is the Hall Monitor, and the other boy says he speaks for the others when he asks the Hall Monitor to not pull them by their shirts, but speak to them.The hall monitor is fending off these remarks very quickly with defensive remarks. Surely, they can all straighten their shirts, what is the problem, if he is not strict they do not pay attention.

An occasional glimpse of modern China can be enlightening. We do not see this on our local television but international news interviews with family life and with the children to school shows free young minds.

Something women understand better than men, perhaps, is in the power of the eyes. What a difference we can observe when we meet someone new, is the look in their eyes. Are they smiling eyes full of good cheer, sparkling like diamonds, or are they, frightened, or suspicious, or grumpy lumps of coal? We see many each day it would seem. So this is on the topic of being inner driven as a Greek heroic antique figure such as Socrates, rather than relying on others to carry you at crucial moments until you expect it, to your doom, more of a nose in the air Cleopatra of Egyptian opulence and abundance and which we we choose is vital to who wins, leads, and ends happy.

For example, as Buddha did at age 80 in 480 B.C.E. So, rather than talk about Tibet and the rich heritage and batons of Chinese ancient treasures we will try to stay with the life of Buddha at the deeper level as we discuss that a life lived, as lived by Buddha, is now accepted by science, as the eight serene virtues that separate joyful people from those who are not.

If you are busy punching your way through life like one of the modern above versions of a mighty Roman Centurions it is vital to your life, your heart, your loved ones if you have any left, to reverse any negative buildup of angry thoughts and reactions. We need to notice how each angry reaction by ourselves makes us more miserable and more likely stressed and more vulnerable to any sneeze from a very sick person walking by. Then, we will catch and incorporate that sickness, especially if we are feeling weak, distressed, angry, or have been on a poor diet.

In contrast, we all know a more saintly person who lives a simple honest life and talks wise words of love like a modern lady diamond and he or she eats so healthy they makes us sick. Well, actually, we are making ourselves sick, they are making themselves even more healthy and happy by the day. Brilliant, yes? More Diamonds, Less Coal . Enough with the attitude of a bat, looking down on everything.

The more positive, healthy and good we are, keep cozy things near us such as our favorite dolls and figurines the sooner and better we take care of ourselves, the more a leader there is in us, if that is what is in us. And I say that after having reflected on my high school days of touch football, and the much higher level of understanding of a key element in keeping to the high ground, and do it with an inner sense of personal destiny.

If, for example your name is Alexander and you are at that academy with the other young princes from the other city states of ancient Greece . That you have leadership in you, you work on so much that you build an attitude and a reputation that of one will just will not give it up when all else wonder how in heaven we get out of this hole: all turn to the main man and look into his eyes. All who looked into the unusual blue eyes of an Alexander saw the fiery gaze of one who saw himself as destined, and death before dishonor as routine as life itself.

What Alexander may have shared in this sense was in a statement I just read the words of the father of Dan Marino of Miami football fame who said “In critical situations, they look into your eyes to see if you’re there. If you’re not there, they start quitting”.

Those eight virtues that cause people to live longest, most healthy, and more joyful lives than the average, as researchers at the University of California found, are to count your blessings, do acts of kindness, savor the joys of life, thank a mentor, learn to forgive, stay close to friends and family, take care of your body, and develop strategies to cope with stress and hardship.

That is certainly how most winning athletes cover many of those virtues, and if they toss in the other half they are going to be long time winning and joyful group, who see inspired fire in each set of eyes. Everyone is home, lights all ablaze, fire in the boiler, home stretch we are in. Now, first, let us get out of this hole, and then punch our way home. Joyfully, merrily like everyone’s favorite little angel. Never mind my cleated boot, or fearful look, you are in my way to joy, Roy. Down you go, that’s a good boy.

Will be back to help you restore, just after I score. I am in huge pain, but will enjoy the champagne.

The most fight we have in us at any moment is to be seen in our eyes. No matter what your If your tribe sense that you have it in you that we can yet win, they look for it in your eyes. If you have doubts, they begin to give up. I, like you, notice how science is measuring everything from bliss to happiness and I do enjoy the combining of science into the humanities to measure happiness and bliss. Respect for yourself and others is vital.

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I had written an article about the brilliant humanity of Leonardo of the town of Vinci, and I feel that it also belongs on this, my most personal site. As it is said, diamond minds come to us rarely, and particularly, it was difficult to enjoy any quality lifestyles during the lifetime of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Events that unfolded during these years created general boundaries for the modern world new and old. By then a fellow citizen of what would become Italy had opened up a new world, while Leonardo was some times forced to move to Avignon in France while armies of Florence fought off Venice who fought them all off. Loose Cannons, One Diamond .

In fact in one of these flights for a more healthy lifestyle than dying, he brought along a painting, which he offered the King of France, who was also one of several Popes at that time, safe harbor.

So we should all stop our frowns that the Mona Lisa was war booty by some Napoleon, who did take much from many. But the Mona Lisa, we now learn, was as payment for several years protective custody, where he lived in secure luxury and created much. So, dear France, I take back my fierce glance: your Mona is yours, as if payment to Rome, for healthy lifestyles to Leonardo, until a nicer Borgia said it you can come home.

And my leap to the present is to touch on the point, about how Leonardo would discover a body in it’s complete sense, including doing autopsies to peel away a dead corpse of a human, skin through muscle to organs and bone. He did this once at an old home when he asked questions of a man in his nineties some of his ways. The gentle man talked as our wisdom today, he was poor but he counted his blessings. He tried to be kind and thoughtful to others. He could savor the joys of his long life during famines and plagues. He thanked everyone, was a forgiving soul. He was still close to his family, and he ate well, and walked. He was careful to not fall, as he saw many people end this way.

And then he died. Leonardo was so overwhelmed he requested, and was allowed to do a complete autopsy of this wonderful man. He found a body still inside so unusually young, while he had lived through so much.

So we do know that Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa as his inner eye saw her. He created her skeletal structure, and then filled in the organs and over them the layers of muscle. And over those layers he pulled on her skin, and popped in her eyes, and worked on her smile. There are many layers of muscle under that skin and those lips, and that is one of the magic of her eyes as well. They are rounded with layers, as people can see, that when you walk right to left, her eyes follow you. And her smile changes too. That is Leonardo for you.

My wonderful large book on Leonardo, I have mentioned before, was given to me by a wonderful man named John. He had been a navigator during World War Two, and his caution for air flack had him one of the few to have flown so many missions and made it back each time. They were usually the last to arrive, and always the other half of the mission to make it back had landed earlier, and had the best seats at the bar.

The other pilots, while mourning those did not return, could always tease the pilot of John’s aircraft, late again. But as always, John had kept them alive, and was evading killer fighters and every shooting site he could see. And if he had to zig zag them from Bavaria to Denmark he was taking them home in their same skin. But they were not heroes, as they were not first. But they did still survive, still were alive. Some times it is wise not to rush, but observe. Then orient yourself, decide, and then act on your nerve.

The lifetime of Leonardo of the town of Vinci was a time of turbulence and violence, yet also the flowering of the great enlightenment of the Renaissance, which began all around where ever Leonardo seemed to be. We notice how science is measuring events from wins in politics to happiness; we find some amazing ways that make us more a diamond mind than of coal.

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Derek Dashwood

This healthy lifestyles list of the most healthy and enjoyable foods from us to you via the learnings of the ancients, and very new, wise surveyors of such. So, first you wish to scan, like the warrior in you and observe. This will take days, come and go, print a list off, get all these into your habits. I am still working on this, and you want to also.

Meanwhile, we can try and taste and see if some new healthy foods will mix and match with the healthy foods & supplements you already are familiar, to become the best that we all can be. You will see I structured a list, as was my advise at that time. I may undo it, but that is process, you are interest in substance. That is, what are these wonder foods that all equal spinach you say.

Our spiritual adviser Popeye still prefers his spinach, but some of us on heart medicine must take care at not too many darkest greens, so powerful, but so potent in Vitamin K that our blood could be as thick as some skulls. You may want to check with your doctor if you are on heart or other medications. I love, but must avoid kept and spinach due to my heart medications.

You will be left to your own devices to test to find new foods to eat. So, here we are then: you want to eat many fruits and berries. That means just that. Eat them frozen, or rather after you have unfrozen what you need, but always frozen is OK, OK? But fresh is always best. Unless they were picked unripe and have gone bad by the time their old truck has reached you.

Now we are into the royalty: Blueberries,Raspberries, Strawberries, Cranberries,Choke berries, Dark Plumbs.

Below that hierarchy come Red Grapes, Papaya, Oranges, Mango, Red Delicious Apples, Kiwi, Watermelon, Cantaloupe, Honeydew Melon, Lemons,Limes, Bananas, Pomegranate, Pear, Peaches, Green Grapes, Green Apples,Black Currents, Red Currents, Gooseberries, Gage,Tangerine, Mandarin, Mulberry, Quince, Passion Fruit.

Golden Delicious Apples have half the potency of red. Then comes Coconut, Yellow Plum, Loquat(A Japanese Plum), Cherries.

Then we have packaged foods that are good for you: not many, but here we are. Pitted Prunes, Raisins, Dates, Figs. The Most Healthy Herbs and Spices in the World are: Saffron, Bay Leaf, Rosemary, Paprika, Black Pepper, Oregano, Parsley, Sage, Thyme, Mint, Celery Seed, Basil, Cinnamon, Tarragon Leaves, Dill Weed. Curry Powder, Cayenne Pepper and Tabasco Sauce have Capsicaine, as does horseradish.

All have anti oxidant power. Coriander, Chives, Caraway Seeds, Sweet Marjoram, related to Oregano, Chervil(Best fresh), Chamomile, Sorrel, Angelica, Anise, Balm, Juniper, Hyssop.

As nuts, grains and supplements are another story we will return with more about nuts, with more details about which are best.

We know darkest is best in fruits and vegetables now, So there are few surprises, as Kale, Spinach, Broccoli, Swiss Chard, Carrots, Red Native Corn, Red Cabbage, Yams, Sweet Potatoes, Tomato (OK, it is a Fruit), Red Peppers, Golden Cream Corn, Yellow Bell Peppers, Orange Bell Peppers, Black Olives, All Root Crops such as Cabbage, Beets, Rutabaga, Okra, Sugar Beet, Parsnip, Parsley, Red Hot Chili Peppers.

We mention Sea Kelp as high in vitamin K. Cauliflower, Videlia Sweet Onions, Green Onions, Celery, Beets, Beet Tops, Red Potatoes With Skins, Garlic, Green Bell Pepper, Rhubarb, Kelp, Cauliflower, Celeriac (Knob Celery), Chinese Artichokes, Horseradish (Invasive, plant in pots) Jerusalem Artichokes, Kohlrabi.

We now have former exotics grown nearby such as Boc Choi, Acorn Squash, Butternut Squash, Marrow, Zucchini, Watercress, Brussel Sprouts, Shallots, Leeks, Atichokes, Endives, Salsa, Scorzonera, Calabrese, Courgettes (Zucchini and self blanching celery grown in blocks), and Cucumber.

This covers so many types of fruits and vegetables that you can consider as a complement to your meat or bean dishes., Those most healthy foods require further study. But here, one healthy surprise that is somewhat of a fruit is your daily treat of dark chocolate. Really. So heat up a bit, pour it over some fruit bits or whatever and however you choose. To your good health!

In our search for wisdom and healthy living, we have checked our lists so carefully, now we have the healthiest fruit and vegetables for the Queen’s navy. And us. Study, mix and match, see what blends best. Since we are considering only placing the finest of life enhancing foods inside us, and into our minds and souls, so we need to look at ways to simplify.

Can you imagine Buddha or Jesus in a line with a huge buggy of modern cheap junk from China? Or Henry David Thoreau? Or Gandhi? Did they not see this as mindless folly, the ways of empty lives to empty graves. We will list a few of our oldies are besties sites, where what you buy is so old it is now going back up in value, unlike the fake lead lined junk in those buggies all the way from China.

Are they making any more old Ming vases? No, but millions of fakes, you should get in line and get one. no you should not. Get ahead of the curve and get some Mings on your mantle, Mickey, and a few decades ago, you so aglow with health from mother earth, and now a knock upon your hearth. It is rich Susie Wing who wants her great grandma’s Mings who sit with your things along your mantle. Be inscrutable, Mickey, add 3 or 4 zeroes to your simple retirement heroes. But your only understand yes, not her other words for less.

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Enjoy good health and great wealth.  Derek Dashwood

As noted before, it seems that the most ancient precious item out of creation, beyond even gold, was a diamond. A princess resplendent in her riches of gemstones and gold, would have a centerpiece that held a diamond to behold. All would gaze in awe, as this diamond of a person glided by, diamonds in her eyes, and splendor all around. And then there those human diamonds, in the east in China was Confucous, who taught of good behavior and obedience to the state, and he did not believe in an after life.

Then came Guatama Buddha (560-480 B.C.E.). Buddha was born as a prince, in a palace of diamonds . But at age 29 Prince Guatama left that behind to find in a simpler way to live, and to find peace somehow within. At that time the ancient religion of Hindhu beliefs held many fables and stories, in that the world was balanced on the back of a giant turtle, or gods with many arms. This also had a caste system that is hard for India to shake, and it had become a central part of the religion. At the top were the usually lightest skinned rulers and those of the court, who were closest to God.

Many religions still follow this 5,000 year old Brahmin superiority over other faiths. Buddha was actually in the second highest caste system, those of the warriors, who had to be that high, like modern civil servants but more as protection on their way to Nirvana first. Down it went until the darkest skin people were the real life and spiritual untouchables, and were perhaps going to have to undergo many transformations. And until that, their children were doomed as they to be the latrine duty for life. Never even loose diamonds for them, not in this life, or the next.

Buddha rejected all this. His quiet, diamond eyes found eight steps to bliss, painful discovery at a time. By the time of his gentle death at age eighty, a very old age for that time, he began with a simple meal with his family of friends, and they all began a final meditation as one in this life. At the end of the meditation, which my caste allows twenty minutes as perfection, gentle Buddha had followed his meditation into Nirvana so blissfully. A diamond of a life.

It was his three disciples, surely, that were wise and from the east, there to look into the eyes of baby Jesus. The next son of God would surely have eyes that glittered like diamonds, then they knew. And this search is how Buddhists, up in Tibet, as the ruling holy man is frail and dying, begin to prepare for their search. In the time after the death of their dear leader, they follow the trails of Tibet, and look into the eyes of each new born child. At times, it has taken them years, and when that baby is found, all holy men must agree.

When they look into those eyes they must all see Eyes that Sparkle like Diamonds and when the diamonds are there, then all praise their leader, and nurture him for life. And I think of the diamonds in the eyes of the mostly kindly at church, or in a shopping line, or in life. Researchers at the University of California have showed that there are eight general virtues of those who report most bliss and happiness in their lives, live the longest, report best health for age, gender, and income group. These sound an awful lot like the church going people who do charity work that I have known.

Such diamonds, I thought and still do, were those diamonds sparkling all around America that GHW Bush, the senior, to talk about, little halos of light. And I knew it was his compassionate conservatism saying we may have some budget cuts to the needy, as we get people less dependent on government. So come on, you diamonds and sparkles of light, pitch in. If you want government off your backs, then more volunteering will be needed. And he was mocked in cartoons as a sparkling airhead, which he is not. That empty hat belong to his son, we mostly agree.

But diamonds for her, from you, make her sparkle, eyes, through and through. So as you do your good deeds, heed these words of diamonds with soft, not hard, souls. These eight virtues to Nirvana are here, science proves Buddha. Count your blessings. Do acts of kindness daily. Savor the joys of life. Learn to forgive. I find this most effective by going first. I approached an old enemy from decades ago. He twitched as if here we go again. I said that whatever happened I could not go to my grave feeling badly. I asked for his forgiveness. You might try it and see what happens. I had a blabbing man shaking my hand, saying no it was really his fault.

Now when we pass, windows go down, friendly hand wave, both sets of eyes sparkle like diamonds. Stay close to your friends and family. Take care of your body. Science says we begin to lose life when we are no longer able when we are unable to get off the toilet without help. Our muscle mass and we, begin our gradual route to heaven with diamonds in our eyes and souls, or to hell with our Tibet Han policeman eyes of coal.

Swing that baton, wield that gun, people who only knew to love are so easy to shove. Those diamond eyes of monks wince, it is true, when hit by a billy club. Would not you? After his roaming and meditations, Buddha came to conclude, it was most wise to ask little, give much, be holy. All his followers understood. And then, when his meditation was over, the others made a shrine, which I have seen, of where he had last been. If all we do is that in life, it will be a place they plant flowers forever. With a diamond below.

Diamonds that sparkle; we all know what that means. It is the amazement of creation to make a diamond from a raw lump of coal. And the diamonds in the eyes, and the souls of some more, we discuss diamonds, and lumps of coal. Yet, we can notice how science is measuring everything from winning politics to happiness and we find some findings that are amazing, or make us with more Athens than Rome. It Is Her Diamond, Let Her Choose!

How we can and will be that again, rising up to our best. And if you are anything like me, you are hopeful yet cautious, fascinated with those who display such brilliance from within. Here we can enjoy the mix of science into the humanities to measure politics and use and wise use of power and how it is shown above. Enjoy. Shine on harvest moon.
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Healthy lifestyles were a challenge during the lifetime of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Events that unfolded during these years created general boundaries for the modern world new and old. By then a fellow citizen of what would become Italy had opened up a new world, while Leonardo was some times forced to move to Avignon in France while armies of Florence fought off Venice who fought them all off. In fact in one of these flights for a more healthy lifestyle than dying, he brought along a painting, which he offered the King of France, who was also one of several Popes at that time, safe harbor.

So we should all stop our frowns that the Mona Lisa was war booty by some Napoleon, who did take much from many. But the Mona Lisa, we now learn, was as payment for several years protective custody, where he lived in secure luxury and created much. So, dear France, I take back my fierce glance: your Mona is yours, as if payment to Rome, for healthy lifestyles to Leonardo, until a nicer Borgia said it you can come home. The True Diamond in That Grotto of Coal

And my leap to the present is to touch on the point, about how Leonardo would discover a body in it’s complete sense, including doing autopsies to peel away a dead corpse of a human, skin through muscle to organs and bone. He did this once at an old home when he asked questions of a man in his nineties some of his ways. The gentle man talked as our wisdom today, he was poor but he counted his blessings. He tried to be kind and thoughtful to others. He could savor the joys of his long life during famines and plagues. He thanked everyone, was a forgiving soul. He was still close to his family, and he ate well, and walked. He was careful to not fall, as he saw many people end this way.

And then he died. Leonardo was so overwhelmed he requested, and was allowed to do a complete autopsy of this wonderful man. He found a body still inside so unusually young, while he had lived through so much.

So we do know that Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa as his inner eye saw her. He created her skeletal structure, and then filled in the organs and over them the layers of muscle. And over those layers he pulled on her skin, and popped in her eyes, and worked on her smile. There are many layers of muscle under that skin and those lips, and that is one of the magic of her eyes as well. They are rounded with layers, as people can see, that when you walk right to left, her eyes follow you. And her smile changes too. That is Leonardo for you. One Rare Diamond in a sea of coal.

My wonderful large book on Leonardo, I have mentioned before, was given to me by a wonderful man named John. He had been a navigator during World War Two, and his caution for air flack had him one of the few to have flown so many missions and made it back each time. They were usually the last to arrive, and always the other half of the mission to make it back had landed earlier, and had the best seats at the bar.

The other pilots, while mourning those did not return, could always tease the pilot of John’s aircraft, late again. But as always, John had kept them alive, and was evading killer fighters and every shooting site he could see. And if he had to zig zag them from Bavaria to Denmark he was taking them home in their same skin. But they were not heroes, as they were not first. But they did still survive, still were alive. And to me John was one Rare Diamond . Some times it is wise not to rush, but observe. Then orient yourself, decide, and then act on your nerve.

The lifetime of Leonardo of the town of Vinci was a time of turbulence and violence, yet also the flowering of the great enlightenment of the Renaissance, which began all around where ever Leonardo seemed to be. http://www.diamondsandgemstonesshop.com

Welcome. My name is Derek Dashwood, and I hope you get a good feeling of the range of human issues that we discuss. We try to discuss what we perceive as the news behind the news. I hope you enjoy the discoveries and discussions. Please let us know. Here we say who we are, and include a kind of mission statement of the science findings we try to bring to your attention: how to light a candle rather than bemoan the darkness.

Antique history books discuss happiness and the state of joy that can be created on earth, and in the mind. As one who meditates and as a follower of Transcendental Meditation, the recent demise of Maharishi has been a week of reflection among those who meditate. Maharishi was not perfect, no man was, but to follow his way to meditation was modern and perfect for the times. So when he visited my city in 1968, his fame through the Beatles had me at his feet and I have meditated since 1969.

And since then, so many studies have shown it does lessen strain, place one in a more contemplative open framework for clear thought. This scientific finding is no surprise to those who meditate or were alert during Sunday School. It is worth contemplating. With all the coal dust in the air, some fresh rare diamond thinking would help the hope to blue skies, nothing but blue skies, all day long.

Happiness is always elusive to feel in a consistent state, as depression can be so difficult to shake off. We know more quickly when we see happiness in others: a laughing couple, a tender holding of hands between an elderly couple, a child on a swing in the park with adoring family nearby with their arms out. Within our own lives, it can be obvious as well: a meeting with a long unseen loved one, almost any time with a grand child, a sense of achievement at completing an overdue task.

When we bask in the warm praise of one we respect, or enjoy the smile of a loved one, the tail wage of a dog or the purr of a cat, we know we are happy. How to maintain that state is unlikely over a lifetime given inevitable tragedies ahead no matter how carefully we and our loved ones live. But some research has been done by University of California psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky and others.

Their findings confirm wisdom back to Socrates, Aristotle, and up through the ages to a young man still 27 who began to publish Poor Richard’s Almanac which became an instant success and created fame for Benjamin Franklin and notice of America as a brave free new land. This research found that we would all be happy if we followed what we learned in Sunday school or kindergarten, or any of the antique history book genius found in there.

The first virtue is to count your blessings, then practice acts of kindness, and savor the joys of life. Thank a Mentor, learn to forgive, ask for forgiveness. Invest time and energy in your friends and family. Take Care of Your Body, and develop strategies for coping with stress and hardships.
Each of these elements science has found exists among those who live longest and report highest rates of personal inner happiness. Living rare diamonds .

We can find ourselves wiping our brow, sweating, with grand children at their school or getting them some urgent thing they need and you were there. Receive because you have earned, as I have done, and make amends as you can. Savor your Best Grandpa Ever award and look at it and whistle while you work, and realize that science can predict some pretty predictable things that is so good to know. For when the crabby lady makes a rude comment, you somehow can really sense she may not have practiced these eight great ways to be happy.

And so we will gather around the fire here again shortly, and talk some more on this. The words stand so well, I thought they should be savored, in case my additional words on this may take it away. When I was first rising (I was a mail boy at Head Office) I found I could remember all the eight names of the vice presidents. Their names followed when I stepped off the elevator and thought their initials, “mebssbsm”.

So, each day you prepare to step off your elevator and face the bosses or the clients, make them think you are clever by saying all names as your circle that floor. Or change the key letters to fit you. So, for now, you can see it’s as easy as Later Alligator, In a While Crocodile. While you do your good deed and smile.
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A ten minute conversation can make you smarter.

Studies by a team of U.S. researchers found that university students who discussed a social issue for ten minutes before a critical exam scored significantly higher than their fellow students who had studied in silence in that time before the exam.

This is important for males to incorporate into their approach to many critical issues they face at university or throughout their lives. As women score higher in communicative skills this is a natural form of behavior in women to talk it out, before and after.

This may also be in part why strong silent men die earlier, as well as they and sometimes myself do not budge their intelligence as much while they study in silence, while the chatty ladies who also fully incorporate the information into their brains, now are seen to have the advantage by natural disposition over the men.

We shall chat much further about this, but the research somehow shows that the act of conversation loosens areas of the brain that may not be connecting to each other, so your brain is in compartments, but the doors are shut. Hello down that empty corridor. Open your doors nd let the conversation in. Gentlemen, you are listening, and even more will you open you mouth and actually make some chit chat just before you make some important decision, climb that mountain, swing from that trapeez or whatever you do that singles you out from the crowd.

So chat up your neighbors before you bell the cat, by mixing with the mice and having one final good last chat. Science says it works.