Jan Tik
Seattle
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Don't make common sense difficult
- Kerneels Young
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Mar 19, 2008
From Boer to Broer*
*Or: From an Afrikaner to his Arab Brothers (and Sisters) in the UAE.
The more I read about your country, the more familiar it sounds. I grew up much like you. Our government was good to its people. They made sure that we could afford a decent living and adequate …
Mar 1, 2008
The Power of Prayer
Although Gramps had a reputation for being a bit rough in his younger days, I knew him as a deeply religious man. Every night at bedtime he would do a sincere and heartfelt prayer for us. Here, bent over in the candlelight he was nothing but a kind and gentle …
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Flicks
Withnail and I, Welcome to Woop Woop, Dust, Elling, Bagdad Cafe, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat), Diva, Life Is Beautiful, Forrest Gump, The Motorcycle Diaries, Door to Door, Talk to Her, Jean de Florette, Manon of the Spring, Kolja, Midnight Run, Mindwalk, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Nowhere in Africa, Ponette, Sling Blade, The Night Porter, The Castle, Felicia's Journey, Goin' South, The Hitcher, Happy Accidents, Joshua Then and Now, The Way Home (Jibeuro), Swept Away, My Name is Nobody, My Cousin Vinny, Silent Partner, Walkabout, Walking Across Egypt, Encounter at Raven's Gate, Jock of the Bushveld, Ladyhawke, Max Havelaar, Run Lola Run, The Milagro Beanfield War, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Secret Garden
Troubadours
Cheb Mami, Eric Clapton, Christi Moore, KT Tunstall, Leonard Cohen, Be Good Tanyas, Cat Power, Nick Cave, Alex Harvey, Sixto Rodriquez, Cesaria Evora, JJ Cale, Joan Armatrading, Leon Redbone, Melanie, Nickel Creek, Panjabi MC, Sam Brown, Tom Waits, Enya, Amy Winehouse, Maroon 5, Norah Jones, Regina Spektor, Train, Jack Johnson, Nickelback, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Brandi Carlile
Pursuits
Interests
Business Strategy, Competitive Intelligence, Decision Making, the Human Mind, Cognition, Cognitive Bias, Collaborative Intelligence, Organizational Studies, and Complex Systems, Science, Renewable Energy, Number Theory, Afrikaner History, Philosophy, Ideologies, Theology, Belief, Faith, Truth, Christianity
Mental Soujourners
CJ Langenhoven, Barack Obama, Paul Tournier, George Soros, Malachi Martin, Scott M Peck, Elyn R Saks, Johan Heyns, Athol Fugard, Mark Twain, Antonio Damasio
Gagosian Liga, Mar 2, 2008:
"We all admire the spangled acrobat with classical grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know." (Vladimir Nabokov)
Thank you for your friendship! Musical greetings from Munich/Germany!
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