Thanks for the welcome - sometimes life throws so much at you within a short time that you think you are handling it since you have to, there is no one around to handle it for you, but in reality your in another zone and do not realize it. Whatever kicks you off to stop the stopping allows the fever to normalize while you regain your spirit.
OOO Roemsary I must look into your suggestion - I love books that make retirement years sound like something more than rocking on the front porch.
Steph I think you would enjoy the book since you would have a better picture while reading of all the places they visit and the challenges because of their boat. I liked how several spots along the way they were able to characterize the community and in a few places the culture of the people in a particular community. Since my sister lives in Corolla, the outer banks - knowing we cross the bridge when we visit therefore, seeing some of the inner waterway I thought it would help me relate while reading. I found the book able to stand alone with no knowledge of the coastal land and seascape - it was a delightful adventure that gave me ideas.
Was I surprised at Christmas - one of the books I had in my amazon cart was under the tree - not a usual title and so I was gobsmacked as the saying goes - seemed when I was using my daughter's computer I left what I was doing on Amazon to help out with something and as usual these days forgot what I was in the middle of doing - she came along and saw my list - chose the top book and voila, there it was wrapped to open Christmas morning -
God is not One by Stephen Prothero -
Amazing to learn how different the eight major religions are from each other and here we are trying to negotiate a common world ethic - like we all learned that the Islam religion was made up of Sunni and Shia when the Iraq war first started there are many huge differences among religions to straddle - and of course to round out my understanding I had to immediately order - used of course - Hans Küng's,
Global Responsibility in Search of a New World Ethic.
For such a brilliant philosopher I find Hans Küng easy to read - I do not 'need' a dictionary at my side for every page as some - it would be easy to zip through one of his books till it hits and you go into a revere altering all you know because of his well thought out point - to me he writes like solving a geometry problem - step by step he leads to a gradual conclusion with perfect analogies and explanations.
In his book he expresses the pitfalls and positives of religion leading us to a world ethic which is hand and glove to Prothero's book to find where there are possible points of understanding much less common ground - just one of the startling factors to me is that we accept and assume the world is like Christians who are concerned about sin, the avoidance and redemption from sin where as, for instance the Buddhists do not believe in sin - lots to ponder.
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