Have you ever wondered if some medieval rulers had a mental illness? Here I share a list of medieval rulers with mental illness and the conditions that scholars believed they had. Charles VI of France Lived: 1368–1422Ruled 1380–1422Known as Charles le Fou (“Charles the Mad”), he suffered from bouts of psychosis, including glass delusion. Glass […]
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What I like about the story of Sleeping Beauty is that to get to the Princess, the Prince had to clear his way through all the thorns. I believe one of the greatest tragedies is that we have lost the true purpose of stories and that is to impart wisdom. Inside each of us lies
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I know a non-fiction author who told me that his former mentor used to look at “urgent or emergency” matters this way… “Will someone die if you don’t do this right now?” Granted the mentor came from a military background and what we loosely call a matter of life or death is very different if
In the last two weeks, I have had to ask myself this very question. Trust is an important part of being human, as is faith. But there are things we can not anticipate that come our way that can shake our world. My daughter’s fiance’s flight was cancelled two hours before he was due to
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