Food for Thought – Honi soit qui mal y pense
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I am a technical communicator – and this site contains the things I like most: thoughts and ideas, some background information on some of my hobbies, poems I like and sayings I endorse. Hope you find it of interest, entertaining or even helpful…
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The loud and ‘active’ are equated; the fast runner and the quick result of a ‘win’ are equated; the ‘meet and talk about it’ and reaching results are equated. Why – and since when? Hold up something that looks like a real brick of a thing – when it’s actually ‘just’ a card in a …
Continue reading “Less is More – Western vs Eastern Concepts of ‘Action’? – The Cards of the Game…”
“Tolerance – The ability or willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with.” I have posted similarly about this before. Tolerance sounds nice and easy and important and altogether a desirable behaviour or mindset. It is not easy, at all. It is important and desirable. Tolerance, as the …
Continue reading “Tolerance – The Basis for Pluralism and Diversity”
Politics is about tactics too, the official definition in the Oxford dictionary states, as one meaning: The activities of governments concerning the political relations between states. Politics can be wise and be based on sound values – or they are cruel and serve a few with no values at all, except their bank account(s). Others …
Continue reading “War, Power, Power Plays – Power Balance – The Cruelty of Politics”
This section is about selected movies. The ones I like or consider special. A movie actually was starting point for my little site: ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ also called ‘A Midwinter’s Tale’ by Kenneth Branagh. It had been unavailable from any kind of broadcast or digital sources. So I digitised my VHS copies and put a description online… find that here, too. By and by I will add a few of my most liked movies as a small reference.
I am a technical communicator – and I like to do things that are related to technical matters just as much as I like dancing, writing, cooking, knitting, crocheting, thinking, watching movies, reading, listening to music, doing nothing…
I hope this little site provides some information or food for thought, entertaining insights – or just plain fun.
If you like it, leave me a comment, if you don’t – constructive criticism is also welcome!