LET NATURE TAKE ITS COURSE

If you are a girl... Before you reach for the kohl eyeliner and play the Bangles' "Walk like an Egyptian", what do you know about Cleopatra beyong the bewitching eyes, pretty nose and that she bathed in asses' milk? Well, not only did she seduce two of the greatest Roman leaders, she was a powerful leader in her own right and remains one of the most iconic women in history. She is proof that you can have brains and beauty, and that it's only a man's world if you let it be . Intelligent and feminine, femme fatale and pharaoh- Cleopatra had it all, and was doing it BC. The philosopher Cicero wrote, "Her character was utterly spellbinding". She always got what she wanted, and knew hot to mix business with pleasure. She was a feminist long before the title was even invented, juggled childcare and a career, and had a name that purred seduction. Her ambition: to rule the world. The result: eternal fame. Camilla Morton

Some substances become mythical. They transcend their physical and chemical materiality and manifest themselves in our minds as symbols, as qualities. In the collective unconscious of a culture, their material constitution becomes secondary to their symbolic value. Gold, to the alchemists, was more than a metal - it was perfection, the goal of a spiritual quest. It is not enough to describe fire as a luminescing gas, and there is something vital and irrevocable about blood that makes it no mere colloidal suspension. In general, a scientific account of mythical substances is bound to disappoint. With water, the need not be so. Even when we remove its symbolic trappings, its association with purity, with the soul, with the maternal and with life and youth, when we reduce it to a laboratory chemical or a geological phenomenon, water continues to fascinate. At first glance a simple molecule, water still offers up profound challenges to science. Philip Ball, A Biography of Water I recommen

Man sollte die Chance nicht verpassen, zu lieben was einem in den Weg kommt. (Ilse Aichinger) Und deswegen verpasse ich meine Chance nicht.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. (Mark Twain)