Oiling my brain with intellectual literature

Ok, well, we all know what happens to our adult brains as we get busy in our adult lives. Parts of them get rusty. And some parts of them get really rusty! I don’t know, but, maybe if you were a scientist, say – a nuclear physicist, you’d still be sharp as a tack! But perhaps your geography skills would falter, or your grasp of the literary arts would dwindle. Well, in any case, our lives get busy, and we just don’t have time to fill our brains up with all of that knowledge we were so begrudgingly forced to ingest in our schooling days. And now we long for it! Funny how that works, eh?

Well, my two new books are going to oil up my brain and refill it with all sorts of groovy knowledge! Totally cool!

The first one is called ‘Isms & ‘Ologies – The 453 Basic Tenets You’ve Only Pretended to Understand by Arthur Goldwag. You know how it is – you’re in a gathering and people start talking about some topic of which you know little, and you feign understanding. Ugh – I hate that. The back of the book says, “It’s time to stop nodding knowingly while inside you feel like a jerk.” Oh boy, can I relate to that! The author says, “‘Isms and ‘ologies can serve as invaluable intellectual and social shorthand.” Totally awesome – I can’t dive into this book fast enough!

The second book is rather cool, because, as a person in recovery – I adore daily meditation books. I have generally only seen these books as spiritual, religious, or self-help in nature. Well, this is self-help – just of a different form. It is self-help of the intellectual variety. It is called, The Intellectual Devotional – Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class and it was compiled by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim. The book travels from Monday through Sunday for 365 days and each day of the week a different field of knowledge is discussed. They are as follows … Mon-History, Tues-Literature, Wed-Visual Arts, Thurs-Science, Fri-Music, Sat-Philosophy, and Sun-Religion. So you are getting ‘bite-sized bits’, nothing that is too hard to swallow or digest, and you are expanding your intellectual horizons. Now doesn’t that sound like fun? Today I read about the origins of the alphabet – and it was very interesting. The letter ‘B’ actually comes from the ancient Egyptian character for the word ‘house’. I bet you didn’t know that, did you? Neither did I …until this morning!

GO READ A BOOK!