Summer in my head

Sum­mer in my head, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Walk­ing through the mem­o­ries of sum­mer in my head It’s a breezy day, warm and gen­er­ous Strolling down a cob­ble­stone path, hands in pocket Tak­ing a deep breath, stop­ping Eyes closed, lis­ten­ing to the wind in the wil­lows To the rustling and shuf­fling of the grass …

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3. March 2009 – 21:13 | By Thorsten | Posted in Poetics | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Value and worth

Value and worth, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Say, how much do you think you’re worth? Maybe $8 an hour? Or $50/h? Or $150/h? How about $45,000 a year? Or $100,000? I think you can tell where I am going. There are sev­eral value sys­tems we’re deal­ing with fre­quently, the most influ­en­tial being our income. …

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3. March 2009 – 10:52 | By Thorsten | Posted in Musings | Tagged , , , | Comments (5)

What really matters is you

Esplanade, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Over the years I learned an impor­tant les­son when it comes to busi­ness that I’d like to share, espe­cially with cre­atives: If any­body can do it every­body will do it, even­tu­ally. That means if some­thing is easy to do and doesn’t require much effort it can and will quickly …

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26. February 2009 – 10:44 | By Thorsten | Posted in Musings | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

Faith

Faith, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. “Faith is the assured expec­ta­tion of things hoped for, the evi­dent demon­stra­tion of real­i­ties though not beheld” Hebrews 11:1 No doubt these are dif­fi­cult times hard to deal with. Many peo­ple are con­fronted with the loss of income – los­ing their jobs, their busi­ness, con­tracts, (life) sav­ings – the …

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25. February 2009 – 13:06 | By Thorsten | Posted in Musings | Tagged , | Comments (2)

A red dichotomy

A red dichotomy, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Fields of red Color of pas­sion   Color of dread Like love flow­ing   Blood spilled My appre­ci­a­tion, grow­ing   I turn in dis­gust My heart rejoice’   My soul shud­ders For warmth fills its cham­bers   As anger and rage flut­ters As I imag­ine all the peo­ple   Don’t want to think …

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25. February 2009 – 09:01 | By Thorsten | Posted in Poetics | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Rider of the four winds

Rider of the four winds, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Rider of the four winds Trav­el­ing Over the sea of time Towards shores of infin­ity Wings spread wide Glid­ing On the stream of con­scious­ness © Thorsten Becker Inter­est­ing fact about gulls (from Wikipedia): “Gulls—the larger species in particular—are resource­ful, inquis­i­tive and highly intel­li­gent birds, demon­strat­ing …

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25. February 2009 – 00:43 | By Thorsten | Posted in Poetics | Tagged , | Comments (0)

That golden path

That golden path, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. To me life is about bal­ance. I am always inclined to find what is referred to in Ger­man as the “gold­ener Mit­tel­weg”, roughly trans­lated the “golden (mid­dle) path”, though the actual Eng­lish equiv­a­lent is “happy medium”. I avoid extremes, my motto being that too much of a …

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24. February 2009 – 17:38 | By Thorsten | Posted in Poetics | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)