My bike ride to the office 2 days 2 different lenses
I bike to my office every day, if the weater allows it. This means pretty much, apprimately 16 km/10 miles across the city one-way. In fall that means starting and finishing the ride at dawn. Since parts of the ride is quite nice with this light, I made pictures on two sequential days: first day...
70 Days Biking to work in half a year
2013Q4_biking I reached today 70 bike days going to work. Living in Munich you bike – period. Good bike lanes, most car drivers reasonable, lots of parks, little hills and distances are comparatively small. During rush hours, however, even Munich’s streets can be scary places, when you’re on a bike and trucks and cars are rushing by. Our streets can also...
To those of you who still remembers the theory of state monopoly capitalism
At the end of the 1960s under the politically active left discussed the theory of state monopoly capitalism, where the interaction of the state with the economy became so intertwined, that it ultimately leads a domination of a financial oligarchy.There are two fundamentally different philosophies about the role of the State. The “left” utopia state...
Advice to young people.
Patti Smith. Published on Dec 6, 2012 Interviewed in London. “Build a good name”, rock poet Patti Smith advises the young. “Life is like a roller coaster, it is going to have beautiful moments but it is going to be real fucked up, too”. Stay clean, stay healthy there are a lot of challenges ahead. ...
Spiritual hiking weekend of a catholic tribe howling like wolves
Management summary: Spiritual hiking weekend of a catholic tribe howling like wolves. The theme was wolves. Is that the catholic answer pentecostal? It seem it is. Amazing weekend indeed. The wolf in us from an Jungian view: “lupus est homo homini” wp.me/p2bcCT-1Jo 1 day ago Friday: We meet at the monastery in Tirol. Huge building, Habsburg style, lots of foreign art: the monks still...
Das Chinesische Modell
Es ist sicherlich nicht an euch vorbeigegangen: Das neue Wahlprogramm der Grünen, und mit ihr das Vorhaben von erheblichen Steuererhöhungen. (Etwas ausgeschmückt formuliert: hier.) Für wen? Wenn man genau hinschaut, wird es besonders den Mittelstand und Familien treffen. Die Grünen sind heutzutage eine ziemlich reine „West-Partei“, und – entgegen der medialen Mär – deutlich älter geworden:...
Round Trip: Orient Express – Trans Asian – Silk Road – Trans-Siberian Railway
I plan a round trip, using long distance train from Munich to Istanbul – per Train Iran, pick up silk route cities of Bukhara and Samarkand travelling Central Asian republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to China using the Silk Road Trains. The route will cross sandy deserts, snow-capped mountains and the sub-tropical greenery of southern China. From...
Pope Francis’ and Benedict XVI not always agree
In 2005, then Pope Benedict quoted from an medieval text, enraging the Muslim population and causing attacks on churches and murder throughout the world before an apology was issued. Reacting within days to the statements, speaking through a spokesman to Newsweek Argentina, then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio declared his “unhappiness” with the statements, made at the...
Opportunità Reblog Antonio De Simone
This uplifting poem by Antonio De Simone complements mine about Change. I always like Antonio De Simone pictures and poems. This picture reminds me on two camp grounds in Italy, one in Tuscany and one at Elba. What does the EU make out of Europe which has such a rich culture, “father countries” and “mother tongues”. Very nice Poem – what a beautiful language Italian is. Vi sono strade che vale la pena percorre viverle anche se sconosciute ed incomprese ai nostri occhi bisogna affrontarle come nuove avventure che se segnate da un destino incerto offrono sempre l’opportunità...
Too many Changes
Change was always good to me. Even if it did not seem for the better it always proved later to be good. But today was a real bad day, I had to give away my BMW 520 for a few green bills. I am truly sad. “Business is change, and Change is business” was a...
Comet PanSTARRS
To see a bright comet with the naked eye or binocular in the night sky is one of the most impressive experiences of amateur astronomers. Under the current weather condidtion it could happen in March again. On June 6, 2011 Hawaii discovered Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) moves in the direction of Sun he resides but deep in...
PayAttention to detail
The park is much quieter in the winter. There were hardly any people other than us. Two—a young woman and an older man, spotted at different times—were getting in their daily run, impressing us with their dedication. No one was out walking a dog. Walking in the park in the winter, bundled up, scarfed, woolen-capped,...