Tag Archives: Musings

Gateways

Gate­ways, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Alas, I have been severely slack­ing again. I would have liked to present a great rea­son for the lack of activ­ity – work­ing on a book that’s almost fin­ished now, some new com­po­si­tions that I wanted to com­plete – but it is non thereof. Instead I have spent quite

The curious case of a little old book — Part 2

The curi­ous case of a lit­tle old book — Part 2, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Last year I related the story of an unusual find in a post titled “The curi­ous case of a lit­tle old book”. I’ve had pur­chased a copy of the Roycrofter’s edi­tion of Aucassin & Nico­lette which also, unex­pect­edly so,

It has been some time

Idyl­lic times, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Some time has passed since I last wrote on my blog as I was tak­ing an inspi­ra­tional break. Now that I felt it was time again to con­tinue I thought about all the many things time is and does even though it is nei­ther an entity nor a

The curious case of a little old book

Do you enjoy detec­tive sto­ries? Have you ever wanted to be a sleuth your­self? I can answer both ques­tions with “yes”. Grow­ing up I lis­tened to quite a lot of audio books, mostly Three Inves­ti­ga­tors, Famous Five and TKKG. And of course I would go out and play sleuth myself. This fas­ci­na­tion with find­ing things

Abenteuer einer kleinen Maus

Aben­teuer einer kleinen Maus, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Aben­teuer einer kleinen Maus — Adven­tures of a lit­tle mouse was the title of a story I wrote back in high school. It was a writ­ing assign­ment by our Ger­man teacher, I believe in 7th grade. We received a gen­eral out­line (a mouse and a cat

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.

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