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Walking slowly
Coming from work, people pass me by with hurried steps. I’m walking slowly. They want to save time. Don’t want to waste it, ’cause the sofa is waiting. I am walking slowly. Thinking, singing,...
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Earth on the “Interstellar Axis of Evil”
(Rebloged (slightly modified) from the “Blog of Tsish”. Tsish is an extraterestial friend of mine from outer space. Original version published in 2009). Back again from behind mars, and my virtual...
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Epitaph
Somewhere there is a stone That is going to be your tombstone You don’t know it yet It does not know you yet Its surface is still empty Which inscription should the stone mason carve into it? Which...
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Who in space needs cars?
(Rebloged from the “Blog of Tsish”. Tsish is an extraterestial friend of mine from outer space. Look for Tsish’s other contributions in my blog and my ABOUT page. First published March 2009) Your...
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The Dragons’s Breath
Listen to the noises of the city. The noises of the motors, the machines. The buzzing of the electric devices. The tires on the tarmac. The chatter of the people, the humming of the planes. Listen to...
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Tracks
Just to leave a track today on my blog… When I was small, I discovered the joys of classification. I cannot remember this myself, but my mother told me about it. Typical utterances from me would start...
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The Cloud
The cloud of gas and dust from which the solar system arose was more complex than you might think. Consider you had to write down a complete description of it, a theory from which all its properties...
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“And so on and …
“And so on and so on and so on … should that, in the end, be the world formula searched for by physicists?” Albrecht Fabri (“Und so weiter und so weiter und so weiter… Sollte am Ende das die von...
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Bike-Riding
I have not been posting much lately. One reason is that the weather has finally turned warmer and sunnier, so I spend more of my evenings now going for walks or bike-riding, for fun and for health...
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Epitaph
Reblogged from The Asifoscope: Somewhere there is a stone That is going to be your tombstone You don’t know it yet It does not know you yet Its surface is still empty Which inscription should the...
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Walking slowly
Reblogged from The Asifoscope: Coming from work, people pass me by with hurried steps. I’m walking slowly. They want to save time. Don’t want to waste it, 'cause the sofa is waiting. I am walking...
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Change of Seasons
The weather has been turning cold, windy and wet. Street lights and head lights are being reflected in the wet tarmac. Raincoats and umbrellas are rushing through the streets. Everybody wants to get...
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Horizons
When you press the light switch, the light goes on. Neither do you need to know were the cables are passing in the wall, nor where the electricity is coming from. In fact, you don’t need to know that...
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New Year
The year is an as-if-construction. We pretend that at this time, one period is ending and a new one is going to start. In different cultures, years and months were and are counted differently and the...
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Footprint
The footprint conveys Only a tiny fraction Of what is behind (The picture is from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maldives_00147_my_foot_print_in_sand.jpg.) Continue reading →
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Offshore
In the old times we thought there was a firm seafloor. We let our anchor fall and it kept us grounded in the traditions of our ancestors. But then we found that the seafloor itself is drifting. Our...
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Listening to the Sounds of the City
Sitting on my terrace with a mug of coffee, slowly recovering from a cold that has been draining my energy for the past two or three days, I am listening to the noises of the city. The projects of...
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Wind
A few weeks ago, my mother told me something I found interesting. We were talking about windy weather. Somebody had told me that he did not like wind at all. But I just love it, even when the wind is...
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Saturday Afternoon
Kites are standing above the Rhine meadows, sometimes swishing around with buzzing sounds. Spring had come early this year, now it looks like autumn is arriving early as well. We are in Mid-August, but...
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Piazza del Paradiso
The room had a simple tiled floor. I don’t remember if the ceiling was wooden with open beams or with stucco. There was a chair, a table, a bed, a wardrobe, all made from wood, in simple style, and...
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