Another Bernard Cornwell yarn. Entertaining and not too taxing…
Worldview
Eudaimonia
Yep – this is a word I had never seen before as well – yes – perhaps that is a reflection on my ‘ignorance’ as testified by the title of the blog, since Eudaimonia is, in fact, the highest ideal for a good life according to Aristotle.
Inspiration Comes From Many Sources
It is past time that I wrote something which is about a topic separate from my current medical issues!! Otherwise it might seem like that is the only thing on my mind – which is far from the truth. OK – it does tend to dominate – particularly at some times during the cycle – but there are plenty of other things occupying my mind.
The Shrink and the Sage
Just started this – but seems to be an excellent book.
It was indeed – thoroughly recommended and I have started to blog about it in the main blog – certainly thought provoking.
Invulnerability
In the 18th Century Benjamin Franklin famously said that “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” – many of us go through much of our life paying much attention to taxes, but paying scant attention to death.
The Art of Intimacy, The Pleasure of Passion
Although focused on close ‘romantic’ relationships, this book has much to offer about how we relate to all people in our lives.
On Receiving News You Did Not Want To Hear
When I started writing these blog entries I had no idea what the precise nature of the content would be – in some cases it was a subject matter that has occupied my thoughts for a long time; in some it was something that I felt I needed to just understand my own thoughts; and in some – like this one – the subject matter is something that I just did not expect!!
Pulling Those Threads Tight
In the two previous posts, The Red Thread and Making Connections, I wrote about the connections we have with other people and how there seems to often be an inexplicably strong connection to some – manifesting itself in the way that our lives constantly intertwine. Typical of this is, of course, family connections – these are to be expected. It is inevitable that we interact with other members of our family – even if that is only at births, marriages and funerals!!
The Red Thread
Some of my earliest blog entries dealt with some thoughts of mine about friends – closeness of friendship and the fact that there are just a few people in anyone’s life who become intricately entwined in that life. As my ideas are developing in that area (and in all other areas of course) it now strikes me that fundamental to the friendships are connections – and this also sits well with my later amendment that whilst I started out talking about friends the ‘closeness’ attribute also applied to enemies!
Making Connections
Have you ever really thought about why people make connections with others? It is both natural and mysterious – why connect with Person A, but not with person B? Certainly some of this is down to ‘circumstances’ – we will make connections (good or bad) with people that we share a close space with – at work, at school, in church, or wherever. There is, however, more to it than that.