Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen it’s Monday—stop screaming and put that energy towards what you’re aiming to do this week—your aims, work takes care of itself but your stuff get relegated to the little energy you have after work beats you up for 8 or more hours a day. I like that commercial that asks WHEN DID IT BECOME AN ACT OF COURAGE TO LEAVE WORK ON TIME. Had a great Friday and Sat and tried to relax Sunday which was a weird day. The main picture and this one just above are from the Winter Park Scenic Boat Trip (http://www.scenicboattours.com/)—some quiet time that is so much fun. A shout out to our guide Tom S. who did a fantastic job. Honorable mention for the day: Casadaga Fairy Faire and Fairy Trail: https://www.facebook.com/BrighidsFairyFaireBff Oh and I just got some communication that I will probably do the FaceBook for my High School Remembrance and keep in touch FB.
“When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.” Albert Einstein
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“Guys are like dogs. They keep coming back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time … they’re gone.” Lenny Bruce
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SO I THOUGHT THIS WEEK I’D JUST KINDA WANDER THROUGH THE WORLD OF WOMEN—STARTING WITH FAMOUS ONES TODAY:
Cleopatra certainly has to be one of the oldest (non-religious) women that most of the unwashed public actually knows about. Basically she became queen of Egypt, though she was probably (the sites I’ve read are a bit vague on this) Greek of a family appointed by conquers of the country. I picked Liz Taylor in the part, because Liz also was bigger than life (not to mention hooked up with men of wealth and power) and the movie where she played the queen was a vision of over the top Egyptian symbolism. Not to mention that Liz was a legend in her own right. We all have heard the story….hooks up with Julius until he met his untimely end and then (some say a more romantic and closer her age) with Mark Antony which resulted in both their downfalls—hers by an asp some say. Cleo to me is the ultimate woman who knew what she want and used what she had available (her face, body and sexual favors) to get it. Unfortunately neither of the men she hooked up with could get her what this woman really wanted: POWER and possibly WORLD DOMINATION
“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” Oscar Wilde
Boudicca if you’re British you’ll recognize this one, if your not it may be a reach. This lady was the wife of a chief of one of the Celtic Tribes at the time of the Romans (think something like Scottish Clan chiefs). “….But the person who was chiefly instrumental in rousing the natives and persuading them to fight the Romans, the person who was thought worthy to be their leader and who directed the conduct of the entire war, was Buduica, a Briton woman of the royal family and possessed of greater intelligence than often belongs to women….In stature she was very tall, in appearance most terrifying, in the glance of her eye most fierce, and her voice was harsh; a great mass of the tawniest hair fell to her hips; around her neck was a large golden necklace; and she wore a tunic of divers colours over which a thick mantle was fastened with a brooch. This was her invariable attire.” Dio, Roman History (LXII.1-2) Seems like the arrogant Romans killed her husband and raped her and her daughters…Pay back is a B—-. She raised her own as well as other tribes and went to war. She and her army destroyed many cities and killed thousands of both Romans and British. The mighty Roman army withdrew from their port of Londinium (London) and she had it destroyed and burned to the ground. Rome even considered deserting the obstinate isle before she was finally defeated. It is uncertain if she killed herself to keep from being captured or if she die of an illness the accounts are scattered. There was never a doubt what this woman wanted REVENGE.
“kingdom was plundered by centurions, his house by slaves, as if they were the spoils of war. First, his wife Boudicea was scourged (flogged), and his daughters outraged. All the chief men of the Iceni, as if Rome had received the whole country as a gift, were stripped of their ancestral possessions, and the king’s relatives were made slaves…” wrote Tacitus
“Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.” Oscar Wilde
Eleanor of Aquitaine was an over achiever if there ever was one and I think of her as making every woman’s liberation advocate a bit lacking. Not only was she Queen of France (where she participated in the 2nd Crusade–actually taking an entire troop of woman with her to the Holy Lands–but she filed for an annulment which was apposed by her husband Louis VII and so was granted–but after she gave birth to a second daughter he agreed) but also England (she became engaged to the future Henry III who was her 3rd cousin and 9 (other sources say 11—a woman after my own heart) years younger whom she married 2 years later). Her properties included a large majority of France. While she bore France only daughters she bore England 8 children, five of which were sons–three of whom would become king and 3 daughters. But as many marriages things went bad. Henry had many mistresses which Eleanor seem to have been able to tolerate , in fact at least one of his sons from these unions was raised with Eleanor’s children at court. However when he apparently fell in love with Rosamund Clifford and made their affair very public it is rumored that Eleanor had her poisoned or other wise murdered. She also supported her son Henry against her husband and when that didn’t work out she was locked away until her husband death and became regent while her son Richard I was on crusade. She out lived all her children except John (who was then king) and her daughter Eleanor who was queen of Castile. No brainer here this queen wanted EVERYTHING.
“She (ELEANOR) was beautiful and just, imposing and modest, humble and elegant”; and, as the nuns of Fontevrault wrote in their necrology, a queen “who surpassed almost all the queens of the world.”
“Don’t wait for the good woman. She doesn’t exist.”
Charles Bukowski
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“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.” Nietzsche
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