Category Archives: Musings

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

Freedom

Free­dom, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Free­dom does not exist in a vac­uum but in an atmos­phere of love and kind­ness. One can­not be free hold­ing on to self­ish desires and ego­cen­tric views. Love, be kind, be hum­ble and let go. Be free and set free.

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

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,

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

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

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

Otherworldly

For­eign worlds, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Merriam-Webster defines oth­er­wordly as fol­low­ing: oth·er·world·ly — Pro­nun­ci­a­tion: \ˌə-thər-ˈwərl(d)-lē\ Func­tion: adjec­tive Date: 1879 1 a: of, relat­ing to, or resem­bling that of a world other than the actual world b: devoted to prepar­ing for a world to come 2: devoted to intel­lec­tual or imag­i­na­tive pur­suits On a per­sonal