Quote: Two more children had been born in the wild—Dmitry in 1940 and Agafia in 1943—and neither of the youngest Lykov children had ever seen a human being who was not a member of their family. All that Agafia and Dmitry knew of the outside world they learned entirely from their parents' stories. The family's principal entertainment, the Russian journalist Vasily Peskov noted, "was for everyone to recount their dreams."
I
am lucky to have an intellectually curious friend who is constantly sending me
interesting articles from around the web. A more recent piece came from Smithsonian Magazine.
Now, this website is fabulous and has quickly become I site I visit weekly. I
particularly enjoy their Ideas & Innovations
page. This article is not from that page, however it is very interesting –
about a family that fled religious persecution in Russia in 1936 and lived in
the Siberian taiga (extremely dense, harsh and bitterly cold forest) for
decades surviving on wild animals, sparse subsistence farming and dressing in
clothes made from potato skins! Yes, in 20th Century Russia!
This video stopped me in my tracks. I was shocked to actually find myself feeling like “This could be me…” Leslie Morgan Steiner is two-times Ivy League educated, has worked in management consulting and for a top marketing company… She is beautiful, independent, intelligent… and yet somehow didn’t realize that she was in an abusive relationship until her husband nearly killed her.
In
this intensely honest talk she explains how her ex-husband became an abuser,
outlines how to recognize the signs, and most importantly, teaches how to break
the cycle of abuse. I took notes because, the saddest thing is that, abusers
start out wonderful and make you feel, ironically, incredibly safe – and that
is how they get you.
Quote: Touch is “our primary language of compassion,” says Dacher Keltner, “and a primary means for spreading compassion.” Touching in couples increases happiness and lowers stress levels, but there are some gender differences in how touch is perceived: Dacher’s research shows that women aren’t always able to feel the compassion in a man’s touch, and men are often slow to pick up on anger in a woman’s touch.
I
love reading about how human beings relate with each other and this article had
an interesting take on a couple’s emotive life can be examined scientifically.
It covers lust, pursuit, orgasms, trust and devotion over the course of a
romantic relationship. I loved discovering that as you grow more deeply in love
with someone your body sort of synchronises itself with how your loved one
behaves. This helps you to sense when they’re in danger or are failing to
communicate that something is wrong (thus helping you to take better care of
them – survival instinct, as it were). I wonder if this is linked to why some elderly
couples, who are described as having been extremely close, die within weeks or
months of each other…
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