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Anne Morrow Lindbergh – Broodmare

When Charles Lindbergh returned to the United States after making his historic solo flight from New York to Paris, he was both a hero and the biggest celebrity in the world. In the weeks and months that followed, Lindbergh received over 100,000 telegrams and cables of congratulations and adulation from citizens of all walks of life. Among these telegrams were numerous proposals of marriage. The 25-year-old Lindbergh had never given the prospect of marriage serious thought as he pursued his other endeavors. "I had always taken for granted that someday I would marry and have a family of my own, but I had not thought much about it. In fact, I had never been enough interested in any girl to ask her to go on a date," he wrote in "Autobiography of Values." It was against his nature to carry on like a footloose playboy. If he was to fall in love, he would do so in his own reserved fashion. He (Lindbergh) would evaluate a prospective bride in a calculating and scientific fashion. How was her health? Was she of good physical standing? Lindbergh believed that mating involved "the most important choice of one’s life. One mates not only with an individual, but also with that individual’s environment and ancestry."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born to the purple, June 22, 1906 in Englewood, New Jersey, Anne Morrow Lindbergh was the daughter of businessman, ambassador, and U.S. Senator Dwight Morrow and poet and women’s education advocate Elizabeth Cutter Morrow. Her family spent summers at the seashore: Martha’s Vineyard, Cape Cod and later on the island of North Haven off the coast of Maine. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in 1928, and married Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., on May 27, 1929.

She had six children. — Charles A., III (deceased, 1932), Jon, Land, Anne (deceased, 1993), Scott and Reeve. Much time during the early years of the Lindberghs’ marriage was spent flying. Anne served as her husband’s co-pilot, navigator and radio operator on history-making explorations, charting potential air routes for commercial airlines. She was crew. They made air surveys across the continent and in the Caribbean to pioneer Pan American’s air mail service. In 1931, they journeyed, in a single-engine airplane, over uncharted routes from Canada and Alaska to Japan and China, which she chronicled in her first book, North to the Orient. They then completed, in the same single-engine Lockheed "Sirius," a five-and-one-half-month, 30,000-mile survey of North and South Atlantic air routes in 1933 (the subject of Anne Lindbergh’s book, Listen! the Wind). Charles characterized this expedition as more difficult and hazardous than his epic New York-to-Paris flight in 1927 in the "Spirit of St. Louis."

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This is a must read for women everywhere!

http://www.bookfinder.com/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/

In addition to North to the Orient and Listen! the Wind, Anne Lindbergh is the author of 11 other published books. They include Earth Shine, in which she wrote of being at Cape Kennedy for the first moon-orbiting flight and how that Apollo 8 flight and the pictures it sent back of Earth gave humankind "a new sense of Earth’s richness and beauty;" The Steep Ascent, a novel that tells the story of a perilous flight made by a husband and wife; the inspirational and widely read Gift from the Sea, perhaps her best-known work; and five volumes of diaries and letters from the years 1922-1944.

Smith College, Amherst College, the University of Rochester and Gustavus Adolphus College have all presented honorary degrees to Mrs. Lindbergh. In addition, she has also been inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the National Women’s Hall of Fame, and the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey. She is also a recipient of the Christopher Award for the fifth volume of her diaries, War Within and Without.

Anne never stopped writing, besides the big hits like Gift from the Sea, a series of autobiographical essays on the nonfiction best-seller list for weeks there was a book of poems, Unicorn and other Poems, 1935-1955. A novel, Dearly Beloved: A Theme and Variations, was published in 1962. By the early 1970s she had begun to edit and publish her voluminous letters and diaries. After Bring Me a Unicorn in 1972, she published four more volumes: Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead (1973); Locked Rooms and Open Doors (1974); The Flower and the Nettle (1976); and War Within and Without (1980). Altogether, two thousand pages of Anne’s diaries and letters have been published. As one critic has observed, "Anne’s works are unified by one theme, or rather one dilemma, namely, that ‘eternal struggle’ of ‘what I must be for Charles and what I must be for myself’."

Though (as typical) he never showed it, Charles was hurt by Anne’s 3-year affair in the early 50’s with her personal doctor. This may have led to the fact that from 1957 until his death in 1974, Charles had an affair with a Bavarian woman 24 years his junior, whom he supported financially. The affair was kept secret, and only in 2003, after Anne and the mistress were both dead, did DNA testing prove that Charles had fathered the mistress’s three children. One child came to suspect that Lindbergh was their father and made her suspicions public, after finding among her dead mother’s effects snapshots of, and letters from, Charles. He is also suspected of having fathered children by a sister of his Bavarian mistress, and by his personal secretary.

All this may have contributed to the stoic character of Anne’s later life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh died in 2001, as did Brigitte Hesshaimer.

what happened to live and let live

http://www.davehitt.com/facts/

To the left a map of the world color for how long people live.

In the green you live into your 80s.  The Japanese smoke the most and live the longest. 

Most of the USSR is yellow   ~binge drinking is killing the men ~20 years before the women.

Afghanistan is    ~44 DUST TO DUST. 

sarcopenia

Exercise and increases in activity have been shown to be beneficial in off setting sarcopenia; exercise even in the very old can increase strength and muscle function.

Lack of exercise is currently thought to be a significant risk factor, increasing the likelihood of sarcopenia.^[3]

Not only muscle but the entire musculoskeletal system of muscle, neuromuscular responsiveness, endocrine function, vasocapillary access, tendon, joint, ligament, and bone, depends on regular and lifelong exercise to maintain integrity. The slow attenuation, atrophy, or loss of muscle tissue that medical professionals sometimes describe as sarcopenia (literally, "flesh loss’) is currently thought to be the result of cumulative loss of musculoskeletal strength and mass associated with chronic absence of exercise of sufficient intensity or volume. However, even highly trained athletes experience the effects of sarcopenia.

It is interesting to note that athletic speed and strength records are generally set by individuals no older than 30 years of age, although some powerlifters and other strength athletes continue to set records into their 50s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_of_Kurtdere

We all know the story. I have pix in my memory of men (THEY WERE ALL SWEDES, FARMERS, MY RELATIVES WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IN ALBERTA 70 YEARS AGO) who looked like this gent.  Still strong and straight and over 6’ into their 80s.  We know why.  There are no secrets only denials.

Out of Iraq into Afghanistan

Mr. Obama acknowledged a war fatigue among Americans who have called into question his focus on the Afghanistan war, now approaching its 10th year. He said that American forces in Afghanistan “will be in place for a limited time” to give Afghans the chance to build their government and armed forces.

“But, as was the case in Iraq, we cannot do for Afghans what they must ultimately do for themselves,” the president said. He reiterated that next July he would begin transferring responsibility for security to Afghans, at a pace to be determined by conditions.

misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Close to 1 million children in the United States have potentially been misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — simply because they are the youngest, and therefore the most immature, in their kindergarten class.

These younger children are significantly more likely to be prescribed behavior-modifying drugs such as Ritalin.  Such inappropriate treatment is particularly troubling because of the unknown impacts of long-term stimulant use on children’s health.

Church of Sub-Genius

http://www.clickpress.com/releases/Detailed/258861005cp.shtml

The Church of the SubGenius is coming to New York City on Saturday, October 9, 2010.

Members of the controversial cult will be gathering for a religious Devival designed to promote the cause of Slack, Abnormality, and the Word of Church founder J.R. "Bob" Dobbs. SubGenius Devivals are spiritual events unlike any other, and audience attendance is expected to reach capacity crowds.

Sub-Genius

http://www.jinfo.org/Nobels_Physics.html

“Western civilization, it seems to me, stands by two great heritages. One is the scientific spirit of adventure — the adventure into the unknown, an unknown which must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored; the demand that the unanswerable mysteries of the universe remain unanswered; the attitude that all is uncertain; to summarize it — the humility of the intellect. The other great heritage is Christian ethics — the basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual — the humility of the spirit.”

Richard Feynman, Sub-Genius

Socrates contra Jesus

Socrates was certain of his calling but unlike the prophets (Moses, John, Jesus, Allah et al) he had nothing to proclaim…His mission was to search and to question unrelentingly.

Socrates requires no faith in anything including  himself, he demands thought, questioning, testing, and don’t cook the books!  Data is king.  He may not have been the first scientist but his example HIS PRACTISE his way of thinking fits the scientific method.

In summary: Socrates is ‘for the world’ and he’s committed to understanding the world of human community (the polis) by the use of rational thought. His is the love of wisdom, of giving oneself to the never-ending search for the truth.  Within the “Socratic Method” there was no room for dogmatic beliefs based on custom, culture  and opinion.

Jesus by contrast was a champion of ‘devotional ethics’.
DEVOTIONAL ETHICS
· The experiential (the ‘heart’)
· Poetic-passionate
· Concerned with individuals (personal)
· Salvation through faith in an Almighty God
· Liberation from sin and guilt
· ‘Ethical being’
· ‘Right attitude/predisposition’
· Obedience to the will of God

Jesus’ way of communicating that goes directly to the ‘hearts’ and ‘souls’ of individual men and women. ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven’, ‘fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom…The ‘Jesus’ mood is one of dread and jubilation.

This mix of ‘fear, anxiety and good news’, is apparent in the subjectivist approaches of the Protestant Reformers (Luther, Calvin et al). They all fall, with Jesus, within the same, subjectivist paradigm of understanding in which reason and metaphysical thought have no real place.

In contrast to the type IV approach of a Confucius: Jesus goes to the ‘core of being’, not ‘outward action’. JESUS constantly focuses his listeners’ attention on the great choice that they have to make: " What is this one important thing? Each man is faced with the terrible alternative: to be accepted in the kingdom of heaven or rejected….’No man can serve two masters…Ye cannot serve God and mammon’. In contrast to the concern with rational thought in types I and II: Jesus speaks in concrete terms, expresses intelligible ideas, utters definite commandments…But all his direct statements are vehicles of a meaning which ultimately evades rational interpretation. Jesus shows little concern for logical consistency.

I am Spartacus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee’s investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. Trumbo won two Academy Awards; one originally given to a front writer, and one awarded to Robert Rich, Trumbo’s pseudonym.^[1][2][3]

WEB & CELL TRAFFIC

Americans are talking less on their cellphones.

When they do talk, the conversations are shorter, according to industry data.

Partly, this reflects the shift in use of cellphones more as mobile computers that communicate via written messages. But this also reflects a subtle shift in etiquette, experts say. People increasingly use text messages and e-mail to arrange telephone calls, which are reserved for more important, complicated dialogues. An unscheduled call from people other than family members, they say, is often regarded as a rude intrusion.

College freshman don’t wear watches — cellphones are their timepieces — and seldom use e-mail, notes the Beloit College Mindset List, which was released last week.