'Oh, music. Lovingkindness. (I like that word.) Dreams. Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television. There are cultures all over the Galaxy that trade dreams. ' -- chapter 20, Grand Central Station I love love love this chapter; it is so beautifully written. The movie never...

This was beautiful!

The nations that had instituted spaceflight had done so largely for nationalistic reasons; it was a small irony that almost everyone who entered space received a startling glimpse of a transnational perspective, of the Earth as one world. It humble us.

I'm enjoying the religion vs science pieces though!

Half way and I'm starting to struggle. A lot of political details involving many many names mentioned once. It's dragging a lot to introduce a new turn of plot every chapter. So every chapter introduces a new discovery and a lot of political and theological debates around them. It is a reflection of its time. But...

Added this to my Salvation of the Reader essay as footnote: Hoe lossen we de leescrisis op? - NTR Wetenschap : the end of this video is exactly what I mean about starting with the love of reading, explaining what they read and why, before they start reading. Create a connection, a relationship with reading. Also to...

 It is October. Time, as always, has flown. My writing has slowed, but my mind, as always, has not. Let’s recap. Life September began with the familiar buzz of a new year, both at school and at work. Fresh goals, fresh strategies. New adventures for my boy, who is growing at a pace I can’t keep up with — making me...

 This essay is a reflection on the book The crisis of narration by Byung-Chul Han, read during the summer of 2025. All the quotes are from the book. Because we lack sufficiently strong communal narratives, our late modern societies are unstable. Without a shared narrative, the political, which makes shared action...

I devoured these pages in two nights. I had promised myself three, but after meeting my second goal, I couldn’t stop. I needed to know what came next. What came next was life. Life and death. And that was it. The story was hauntingly beautiful, and it pulled me under. It even drew tears from me. I felt such sorrow...

I added a similarity map using custom tags for my books. They will now show the top 3 matching books according to these tags. But the tags are a manual job... so it should take me 2 - 3 months to complete at a rate of a couple of books a day. But happy to be able to implement after working on it for a while! 🤕🥳...

Just went to linkedin — I log in like every few months. I see a post of someone I know, super smart and energetic, her own walking brand. Then I read what she posted to increase her customers — she's freelance — which at first looks sounded like a nice way to get a niche clientèle. BUT... I cringed with regret of...

WIP summer at blaakIt's not perfect, but good enough to start coloring in the next session next Saturday. #art #color_pencils #blaak #drawingThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.