Category Archives: Musings

Thoughts, ideas, observations and contemplations of all things life and creativity

Focus

Over the past sev­eral months one small word has occu­pied much of my atten­tion: focus. It’s been echo­ing in my mind, fol­low­ing my every thought, some­times with a gen­tle smile, other times with a scold­ing expres­sion. It cer­tainly is one of those lit­tle words with a big atti­tude — once it has become part of

The things most natural

Fol­low the path, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. After my last post I sat down and spent some time pon­der­ing why it is rather dif­fi­cult for me to pro­mote my own work. I’ve been on uneasy terms with “the Inter­net” ever since I first became aware of it back in ’95 as men­tioned in a

Knowledge and Interdependence

Of what ben­e­fit is knowl­edge? That depends on how well one is able to apply it. We can cer­tainly know a lot of things, but that doesn’t mean we are always able, or even will­ing, to prop­erly apply that knowl­edge when called upon. We may know that eat­ing cer­tain foods can trig­ger aller­gic reac­tions but

Love, Passion and Creativity — Part 3

As I am writ­ing part three now I real­ize how much I do love writ­ing. There is a sig­nif­i­cant dif­fer­ence between know­ing and under­stand­ing and it can take quite a while before one turns into the other. Despite major lapses and set­back I keep on writ­ing, in one for or another. In the pre­vi­ous post

Love, Passion and Creativity — Part 2

Before head­ing into this post I rec­om­mend read­ing part one of “Love, Pas­sion and Cre­ativ­ity”, if you haven’t already done so, as I’ve laid the foun­da­tion in that post for what’s to fol­low. Time is a curi­ous thing. I’ve writ­ten about it before but I want to men­tion it here again in the con­text of

Love, Passion and Creativity — Part 1

So there’s been a lapse again on Alternate:Words. What was once intended to be a reg­u­lar per­sonal blog filled with cre­ative writ­ings has turned into skip­ping entire months with­out updates. It was time for me to take a deeper look at the reason(s) for this and what I have to share may be help­ful to