Yearly Archives: 2007

Life is a matter of focus

Life is a mat­ter of focus, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Some­times seem­ingly triv­ial things can take on a mean­ing of their own. The leaf in the fore­ground seems to be rather insignif­i­cant. It is with­ered and dead. The build­ing in the back­ground is the head­quar­ter of a large bank in north­ern Ger­many. To me …

16. December 2007 – 11:27 | By Thorsten | Posted in Musings | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

When nature dreams

When nature dreams, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. When nature dreams, Gen­tly asleep in autumns rest, Fairy tales of sum­mers past awaken. © Thorsten Becker

19. September 2007 – 22:32 | By Thorsten | Posted in Poetry | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Tranquillity — Stille

Soft Light, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) tran·quil·li·ty — qual­ity or state of being tran­quil; calm­ness; peace­ful­ness; quiet; seren­ity. In our day to day life we rarely come across the words “tran­quil” or “tran­quil­lity” any­more. Quite the oppo­site is the case. We’re encour­aged to eat fast, shop fast, drive fast, walk fast, …

27. August 2007 – 23:56 | By Thorsten | Posted in Musings | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Summer’s coldness, Winter’s boldness

Cool:Summer, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Warm light fades. Cold light cre­ates Shiv­er­ing starlight, Envelopes the soul tight. Summer’s cold­ness, Winter’s bold­ness. © Thorsten Becker

14. August 2007 – 09:19 | By Thorsten | Posted in Poetry | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Kontraste der Heimat

Kon­traste der Heimat, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Lan­guage is much more than the ver­bal expres­sion of one’s thoughts: Our lan­guage is an inte­gral part of our iden­tity and cul­tural her­itage. We not only speak a lan­guage, we think and live in and with a lan­guage. And despite our tech­no­log­i­cal and eco­nom­i­cal advances there are …

31. July 2007 – 12:37 | By Thorsten | Posted in Musings | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Happy?Feet

Happy?Feet, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Happy Feet is one of those movies you don’t expect any­thing but light enter­tain­ment from until the real mes­sage car­ries through: mankind’s destruc­tive habits, exploita­tion and incon­sid­er­a­tion for nature. I think the most dis­turb­ing scenes were of Mum­ble being cap­tured and put on dis­play. As much as I appre­ci­ate …

23. July 2007 – 13:59 | By Thorsten | Posted in Musings | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Inspiration <> Motivation

Seeing:Art, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. I’ve recently pon­dered a bit the rela­tion between inspi­ra­tion and moti­va­tion. Accord­ing to Dictionary.com inspi­ra­tion is defined as: 1. an inspir­ing or ani­mat­ing action or influ­ence: I can­not write poetry with­out inspi­ra­tion. 2. some­thing inspired, as an idea. 3. a result of inspired activ­ity. 4. a thing or per­son …

8. July 2007 – 12:18 | By Thorsten | Posted in Musings | Tagged , , | Comments (0)