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The Parrot
Bilkan, Ali Fuat (2008). Tales from Rumi: Mathnawi Selections for Young Readers, 14. Story behind the Passage Someone told me about this story by Rumi today. I had heard it before, I think, but not in the context of Rumi. I still loved listening to it again. It is a beautiful story with a beautiful lesson….
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Expectations
Dickens, Charles (1860/61). Great Expectations, 319. Story behind the Passage Yes, Dickens again. This time, I am talking about Great Expectations — the story of Pip, the orphan, whose journey to adulthood is told in this novel. I do not remember many details about the book but I knew today that expectations had to be my topic….
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Trees And Words
Moretti, Franco (2007). Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History, 70. Story behind the Passage Today, just a few minutes ago, I wrote a beautiful text for today’s post. It was about how I planted a mini tree in the garden today, a a red current bush. And I wrote about how much that made…
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Walking
Strayed, Cheryl (2012). Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, 63. Story behind the Passage Sometimes you have conversations with people and you immediately know afterwards that they have changed your life. Sometimes you even know beforehand that this will happen. You sort of push for this because you are the one asking…
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Ocean
Hemingway, Earnest (1995/1951). The Old Man and the Sea, 44. Story behind the Passage When I think of the ocean, I sometimes think of Hemingway. And when I think of Hemingway, I think of Cuba. I was still a teenager when I first visited the island and when the tourist guide showed us the bar “La…
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Book Of The Week The Roads We Take Seven Short Stories
Henry, O. (1983). The Roads We Take. Seven Short Stories. Story behind the Book Choice This week I felt like reading prose. But there was no novel that caught my attention when I looked at my shelf with the “to be read” books. What did catch my attention was this collection of short stories by O….
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Media Ethics
Kunczik, M., and Astrid Zipfel (2001). Publizistik, 198. Story behind the Passage Yes, this week I seem to be bothering my dear readers with books in German. But this is not from any book. It is from the “Bible” of communication studies. My professor, M. Kunczik, based his lecture on it in a very old-fashioned…
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Consulting
Block, Peter, and Janis Nowlan (2011). Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used, 18. Story behind the Passage Today was a life-changing day for me. That has private reasons, however, and I am not going to address these. It was also a remarkable day because I became aware that the solution to my personal…
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Learning Like Royal Children
King Abdullah II of Jordan (2012). Our Last Best Chance: A Story of War and Peace, 139. Story behind the Passage Today was a remarkable day in many ways and the most remarkable thing was that I got to talk about education and my vision of it to three different people. All these conversations happened more…
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Availability
Thaler, Rhichard H, and Cass R. Sunstein. Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, 27. Story behind the Passage No, I am not talking about the kind of “availability” that we know from our daily lives; meaning temporal availability mostly. What is meant in the book is the availability of thoughts to get people…