Musings Of Sporring - Issue #29

July 04, 2021

Hi again!

New month, July, and we have passed through half of 2021. Isn't it crazy how fast time passes by?

Journalings of thoughts

  1. I'm always surprised by how much I can learn every day. I love finding new interesting things and sharing them either as my own articles or links like I do in this newsletter.

  2. Living in the country, not in a city, has its challenges, but mostly it's for good. One really great perk is the possibility to grow your own vegetables, and I can't wait until I can start harvesting!

  3. Going into my final stretch of writing every day for 31 days, however challenging, it's been a labor of love. Love for the writing, Love for the process, Love for my creativity.

  4. I did a retrospective of all my old writing (before 2015) and I'm a little flabbergasted by the quality of my articles as well as of the various subjects.

Journalings of links

Here’s a quiz: Which world leader made the following statements? If you guessed Donald Trump, you are only one-third right. The first statement was made by Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Israeli prime minister, soon after his opponents formed a parliamentary coalition to oust him.

GETTR will be the newest MAGA venture in this space. It’s being led by Trump’s former spokesman, Jason Miller. Former President Donald Trump’s team quietly launched a new social media platform on Thursday, billing it as an alternative to Big Tech sites.

What happens when the former leader of the free world gets deplatformed? We’re going to find out. Donald Trump is out of the White House. And he’s been kicked off of the world’s biggest tech platforms. Now what?

What does it mean to learn? For some, it is the introduction to anything new in life that teaches them a thing or two that they did not already know. For others, learning is the process of remembering any information that they are subjected to.

One challenge is how little we know about the dangers.

People tend to think of

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as relatively recent inventions. But English speakers have been looking for better ways to talk about gender for a very long time.

People in the United States no longer agree on the nation’s purpose, values, history, or meaning. Is reconciliation possible? Nations, like individuals, tell stories in order to understand what they are, where they come from, and what they want to be.

Talking about America’s rising levels of polarization, extremism and distrust of institutions as if they were natural disasters or products of social media quirks misses the more immediate threat.

Making the right considerations happens when you are prepared.

Journalings of articles

When I started playing Violin, I didn’t want to do so. But my parents decided that since my older sisters played piano, my choice wasn’t that. My parents even said to me, “Anders, you are a boy; you…

Yesterday I met one of my new neighbors and her children, a two-year-old boy and a baby. I love getting to know new people, and every time that happens, I always think, “What can I learn from this…

I have never been one that is into Zen, Mindfulness, or meditation. Well, come to think of it, periodically in life, I have done mediation, but the habit has never stuck with me. For the past time, I…

I was a keen user of Filofax and a Palm V for many years, tracking what I was doing and storing information necessary for my job. It was a setup that worked perfectly for me, but I always knew that…

It was a question that I have had in mind for so many years and has been a part of my struggles. And the answer can be both simple and highly complex, depending on how you interpret it.

We are now in the midst of 2021, the pandemic that hit everyone in some way is not eradicated but slowed down and hopefully soon gone. The more people are vaccinated, the more we can go back to some…

Journalings of Instagram

Journalings of Youtube

Journalings of the end

When all is said and done, what do you say?