An early morning reflection An early morning reflection on a lost generation of young people, this time from a Russian perspective. I don’t know exactly how many Russians have died or been injured in Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine, but the figures range from 50,000 to 350,000. Regardless, the numbers are staggering. 350,000 people, mainly …
I’m not a Zen guy, nor do I practice Buddhism. It’s all getting too spiritual for me. My interpretation of the “rules of living”, written a thousand years ago is very much dependent on my way of looking at the world. You may see it differently and thus it becomes a different interpretation But I …
A damp smell of sand. Warm, red sand. Crickets singing in the evening darkness. The birds’ hysterical chirps in the morning. The sun that heats and makes the seats in the Land Rover impossible to sit on. The smell of weapon oil. Sweat. The muezzin’s prayer call from the minaret. The kids’ happy laughter and …
(Or how to build your blog, sell your books or get published.) In short – everyone needs an audience. Without an audience, what you write will not be read no matter how inspiring you write or how important it is what you write about. It’s like when the visibility of the books determines whether people …
My own personal anxiety In several blog posts I have described PTSD and GAD, general anxiety disorder. And I have really been general. Today I want to write about my personal anxiety. The one I feel when I have my days where I’m not at my best. I am reasonably good at telling about other …
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Fasten your seatbelts “I needed some input on what to write as the intro to my blog. After a few attempts with the help of a helpful AI (there seemed to be no end to it), I decided to fix it myself. Here’s why:” Welcome to a realm … where words dance, ideas collide, and …
The genocide in Rwanda On 6 April 1994, a plane with Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana on board was shot down outside the country’s capital. A few hours later, one of the most horrific genocides in history was underway. Around 800,000 people were shot or chopped down with machetes in just over 100 days. Journalists documented …
3 (4?) murders and still unresolved. 16,000 pages of attachments have been submitted to the Norwegian Commission for the Review of Criminal Cases. A family conflict, two assassination attempts, and a triple homicide remain unresolved. No one was convicted of the murders, and it was decided to downplay the whole thing as a family dispute. …
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Probably not. And here is 5 reasons why. I am slightly above average interested in what is happening in Ukraine and in Gaza. This means that I follow quite a few people who I believe have a balanced attitude to the reality surrounding these events. I follow “Reporting from Ucraine” and I follow Anders Puck …
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Luckily, I remind myself, I have someone to motivate me to exercise. Let’s rewind a bit. (Who wouldn’t want to rewind time a few years, especially those of us who are starting to reach the upper end of the life course? But that’s another, more morbid (if you will,) story.) For the sake of today …
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