A Typical Mortal Life

Always reading. I never stop. 

Love the written word.

Have collected many old, now rare books for just such a time.

BUT, regardless have been reading them anyhow all along the way . . . since a child.

Currently, as one of several that I've managed to get to most recently . . . is this one I'm wrapping up now.  "The Great Events" by Famous Historians.... It covers the epochal time of 1800-1815.  Think (do you know?) of all the fantastic and seemingly apocalyptic and otherwise horrendous, magnificent etc., events that went down in that time period?  A lot!  People starved, were slaughtered, were mustered into 100-200 Thousand-man armies . . . fighting, leaving wives, children, arms blown off, legs amputated from canon-balls . . . revolutions (South America) . . . war, war . . . famine, plague. . . . 

Life went on.

We are quite coddled in our comfort and have (for the most part) no real, visceral understanding of the ongoing sufferings and conspiracies and calumnies and violence, subterfuge, death. . . .

This book just covers a (yes, fairly intense) 15 years . . . . . 

Meanwhile, I just finished 3 volumes of Napolean's valet's  memoirs... THREE VOLUMES.. day to day stuff roughly during that same time period.  Oh, before this, was my semi-annual re-reading of Plutarch's Lives.  I love that one and love to revisit.  Next (I'm on a Napoleon kick) is "Napoleon In Russia" . . . . Wow. What a story.  What drama.  What a tale.  

In perspective . . . (this is why I love reading history) this time we are in . . . is par for the course. Ha.

GOD and THE WORD . . . transcends it all and gives the proper perspective on all the various and shifting machinations, details . . . of what is . . . simply . . . a typical, mortal life.

More book notes to follow . . . .  fwiw:)