Religion, Politics And Fear Of The Unknown!

There were no Catholics in our town before JFK. If there were, none of the kids in my gang knew about them. It was rumored that they had a church in town somewhere behind the local A & P, but I never found it. I was already in my teens before I saw my first real life Catholic. He didn’t look much different than me, but my mother acted like I had spoken to the anti-Christ himself! As a kid growing up in the south in the early ’60s, our church was the spiritual center of our universe.... Read more »

Chinese Antiques; Wise, Glorious - China Now; 1936 Berlin Olympics?

Chinese antiques have delicacy and intricacy that can amaze and delight. To view such pieces is to deeply appreciate that such an ancient civilization was creating such intricacy when most of the world, including Europeans lived in caves and trees is to appreciate the rich depth of the Inner Kingdom. And yet as the present leaders remind us, this great civilization did not involve democracy, and they see no need to have it intrude into their eastern ways, which have worked so well for so long. Obviously... Read more »

Chinese Antiques, China’s Olympics - Less Athens, More Roman Circus?

Chinese antiques civilization evolved very separately from influences from the west until modern times, and those were more of warships and gunboat diplomacy by the west to intrude itself into commerce of the Orient. The west has much to feel shame about in it’s treatment of China, as does Japan, and for which China never ceases to remind all guilty parties. This has become such an ingrained self defence mechanism that China continues to use it to this day, whether it holds the high moral ground... Read more »

Japanese Antiques, Modern Japan - Less Samurai, More Buddha

Japanese antiques follow the pattern of their mother China, in that as peoples poured out of Africa some million years ago, they took on various characteristics, whether the golden peoples of the east who also poured over into the America’s and became brown, or the Indo European groups that spread west into Europe, becoming lighter skin and blue eyes as their more northern lives now required more sun absorbtion. In original humanity Africa, equitorial peoples retained their dark skins to lessen... Read more »

Orlando History

You might not imagine it now, but before Orlando became a thriving tourist hotspot, it was just a small settlement covering in fear against the Native American Indians roughly almost two centuries ago. With Orlando’s dazzling and inviting sights and theme parks, as well as its wonderfully low cost of living, it is indeed hard to imagine that Orlando started small. Historically, Orlando was grounds for the Seminole Wars between the Americans and the Native American tribe Seminole. In 1838,... Read more »

Diamond Minds, Blue Skies - On the Train from New York to London, Don’t Look Down

It will take some brilliant thinking, a collection of diamond minds, to ever hope to bring us back to blue skies, nothing but blue skies, all day long. We enjoyed that in our happy days youth, before all the modern progress. Then, it seems, we matured away from the massive amounts of humanity that traveled by train up into the 1950 era. Never since has America or the world had more people on the move, on the train, on their way from coast to coast with no refrain. We see movies of that era, which... Read more »

Diamond Mind, Diamond Soul - The Brilliant Humanity of Leonardo

Diamond minds comes to us rarely, and to enjoy any quality 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... Read more »

Healthy Lifestyles, Power, God, and Allah - A New Crescent of Peace?

The power in this story is that this happened 230 years before the birth of Christ and Christianity, and that many more years before before the birth of Mohammed and Islam. But it was within the time that we knew disciples, or followers of Buddha had arrived this far west, and had certainly reached Egypt to Greece, as Aristotle to Alexander, and it trickles down to us. But who was this holy man at an oasis, so respected and revered in Egypt at this time, to cause mighty Alexander to go seek him,... Read more »

Healthy Lifestyles, Napoleon In London - While Asia Ascends

Healthy lifestyles have been on the news today. First we saw a video of a day in the newly created city of ten million people people on the Pearl River delta near Hong Kong in China. We see a before photo of a quiet rice farming valley, and then as it is now. a valley of high tower buildings with a massive harbor, apparently with that vast harbor in Japan, now largest harbor in the world. How did this happen in a decade? China basically recreated and doubled nearby Hong Kong. They allowed ten million... Read more »

Greek Antique Democracy, Modern Healing Power - A Lincoln Could Help Again

Greek Antiques heroes, like later American heroes, have always been of a sort who were more a Jefferson or a Lincoln in mind and soul. They seemed to rise to the occasions of most dire need for their times, and speak their truth so clear and clean and pure that all could remember and also bring into their own heart and rise in their own souls, and be and feel the better for it. Tom Jefferson poured his heart and soul into the Declaration of Independence. When I first read this magnificent document,... Read more »