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I'm in the midst of reading "The Arbornaut" - A life discovering the eighth continent in the trees above us - by Meg Lowman. I heard her interviewed & wanted to read her book. It's fascinating! An autobiographical story by a pioneering woman scientist - entering a new field when there were few women in field biology - so an interesting feminist & science perspective. Being a scientist when the only computers were huge mainframes & the internet did not exist. The life of a field biologist in remote locations, figuring out how to do things that have never been done - extraordinary. The courageous exploration & discoveries made in the previously unexplored tree canopy, in locations around the world. A reinforcement of the crucial need to protect trees and all of creation. Recommended!
 
Nancy said:
I'm listening to 'Becoming' by Michelle Obama. It's long...19 hours of listening. But it is really interesting to hear her take on life as the FLOTUS. As a hold-in-my-hand book, I just finished 'stranger in the lifeboat' by Mitch Albom. I'm surprised that people seem to like his books so much. I think he is trying to point people in the direction of faith, but it seems to be such a simplistic faith that he markets.
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Oh, I’d like to read Michelle’s book to compare it to her husband’s. A hear book sounds like a great idea.
 
I'm on Peril (Woodward on epistemology and arborist myth) )and ... what should be a heads up about election of psychopathic powers ... but humans are generally so attracted to power and intelligence (sapient/sapiens) is so repulsed and eliminated as flattery takes on improper imitation protected by copy ... right?

A late friend often said Romans hate a thinking M'N a MU in other traditions ... amusing to those outliers? Tis a dark reflection ... old cougar ... Pan there in the trees!

The flame of the torch is bifurcated divinely into "others" ... thus the alternate view! Step on and look back at yourself ... it is just a stage ... some learn so don't! So nemesis and we goes down in history as another population that mist something ... abstraction? Thank god few understand or they would rant ... Wahl ... why ... "Y" ... between "X" and the sigma "Z" is a rest ... let the story be told in sum! Autonomously it is shattered ... put it together folks ...
 
I appreciated all the insights provided in Sapiens. Homo Deus motivates taking action as it points to all the trends that could make our society a miserable, feudal society if we do not act. I look ked the idea that a mutation caused our ancestors to have imagination, but that idea is a bit of a stretch. There are two many stories of birds and mammals showing imagination. Homo Deus has very interesting information on the mind.

I wonder if the gene mutation for sociopathy made the difference for the success of our species.
 
jimkenney12 said:
I appreciated all the insights provided in Sapiens. Homo Deus motivates taking action as it points to all the trends that could make our society a miserable, feudal society if we do not act. I look ked the idea that a mutation caused our ancestors to have imagination, but that idea is a bit of a stretch. There are two many stories of birds and mammals showing imagination. Homo Deus has very interesting information on the mind.

I wonder if the gene mutation for sociopathy made the difference for the success of our species.
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And a great belief system that stated knowledge is evil ... as it disturbs the calm and restful ... to the point of raising the dead ... apoplexy?

Perhaps a stroke of genius ... for vast recycle ... and rendering out thoughts ... the powerful would never agree ... thinking M'N are dangerous ... a romantic trend ... to a degree it may work with reservations!
 
I would say a natural mutation is quite different than man made one. Nature is a natural change where as
humans are too biased to do it without personal
preferences interfering in causing DNA changes. I'd take Nature's doing it rather than any human.

If a need is the such as gene therapy for cancer treatment in one person, that's okay. It is geared to that
one person's need and I hear that it has helped. So if geared to an individual's care .. okay.
For the whole human race.. NO! that is not okay. That is not God's doing, that is human arrogance
and...human's experimenting on fellow humans. Not the Creator's doing.
I think some people forget we are created sacred beings, and that sacredness is not to be tampered with.️✝️ ️
I'll go with God's plan of Natural evolution.
 
I'm reading "The Concise Book of Lying" by Evelin Sullivan.
A history of lying and yes the church gets the first chapter, along with Generals, Greeks and other liars.
Very interesting stories and why we lie.
 
All mutations in our past are natural mutations, and we still have mutations, some minor, some fatlal,, and some possibly beneficiall.

I read a few books while in Costa Rica. "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry was a long and difficult read. It helped me learn a lot about India under Indira Ghandi. It made her look like a super sleeeze bag without naming her. "The ALice Network" was a great read, but I do not remember who the author was.
 
I adore a Fine Balance. Read it thoroughly, twice, as part of a Can Lit uni course a few years ago. Wise, wonderful, characters, beautifully drawn by Mistry. Such a Long Journey, also by him, was also good. Helped to articulate for us the partition of India.
 
jimkenney12 said:
It was interesting the best spy in world war I was a woman.
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That doesn't strike me as interesting, as much as unremarkable. If you don't know your "neighbour who knows everything", you've got blinders on, IMHO. And there's a better than even chance that it's a woman.
 
BetteTheRed said:
That doesn't strike me as interesting, as much as unremarkable. If you don't know your "neighbour who knows everything", you've got blinders on, IMHO. And there's a better than even chance that it's a woman.
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I read the tome: "The Man Tat Wished to Know Everything" and the conclusion was he lost a lot of immaterial concept while putting the NU intuit!

Some loose the entire item due to disbelief in sol/psyche/mine as a deep thing ... in the rush for shallow and shady! Consider Judea under that tree ...
 
We just finished reading "The End of Your Life Book Club" by Will Schwalbe". Was dry ng a bit at the end as images of last hours with my father and Bonnie's mother came to mind..A book with many important insights along with recommendations for more books than I am likely to read in the next five years. One of the last recommendations was the Girl with a Dragon Tattoo series. We have away our copies of the trilogy years ago. The description of Victor LaValle's "The Big Machine" with its continuing surprises reminded me of "The Hundred Year Old Man Who Crawled Out The Window". It continually had surprises and was an hilarious read.
 
jimkenney12 said:
We just finished reading "The End of Your Life Book Club" by Will Schwalbe". Was dry ng a bit at the end as images of last hours with my father and Bonnie's mother came to mind..A book with many important insights along with recommendations for more books than I am likely to read in the next five years. One of the last recommendations was the Girl with a Dragon Tattoo series. We have away our copies of the trilogy years ago. The description of Victor LaValle's "The Big Machine" with its continuing surprises reminded me of "The Hundred Year Old Man Who Crawled Out The Window". It continually had surprises and was an hilarious read.
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And very deeply hidden messages for those not accepting abstract messages leading to considerable elongation of thought (classic Romans were brutes about thought)! They hated glowing nebulae as well ... head men with auras? It a Zion or sign of something that goes on further than wished ... for folks looking for end ethics! Nurtured as is ... perhaps in mule trains ...
 
Humans are really so resilient. Anyone who doubts the power of woman has never been totally rejected by a mother-in-law. Ouch.
 
I just finished reading "The Essential Henri Nouwen" edited by Robert A. Jonas. It serves me right that I wanted a shortcut to Nouwen's works. However, I think the edited version left too much out for my feeble brain. There were times that I didn't make the connections I think I should have, and I was wondering if it was because something had been left out. Nonetheless, there were lots of powerful statements and early in the book I was inspired to pray in a different way that I have very much appreciated.
 
Nancy said:
I just finished reading "The Essential Henri Nouwen" edited by Robert A. Jonas. It serves me right that I wanted a shortcut to Nouwen's works. However, I think the edited version left too much out for my feeble brain. There were times that I didn't make the connections I think I should have, and I was wondering if it was because something had been left out. Nonetheless, there were lots of powerful statements and early in the book I was inspired to pray in a different way that I have very much appreciated.
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Imagine gaps in Nouwen ... however in reality much is dispersed!
 
I've started reading the Canada Reads list. Starting with "Five Little Indians" first. So far, very powerful.
 
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