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No 71 Read: ~ 5 min Words: ~ 900

A short note of excitement about a new acquisition, Ralph Waldo Emerson's diaries in a new translation by Jürgen Brôcan.

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No 69 Read: ~ 5 min Words: ~ 730

My review of the currently running French film comedy "Maria dreams", or the art of starting over, starring Karin Viard and Grégory Gadebois.

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No 68 Read: ~ 16 min Words: ~ 2500

It's no longer about the new, it's about the best. What was the best thing about the past year 2022? What do I remember fondly and what can last in memory against the tide of time?

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No 67 Read: ~ 10 min Words: ~ 1422

What does my new photo page have to do with Denis Diderot, the French superstar of the late Enlightenment? And why is the new design of the page to be understood adequately with Diderot's scarlet housecoat?

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No 66 Read: ~ 8 min Words: ~ 1100

On my site cronhill.de there is a new "old" page, the Photography page. From now on, I will show photos here that are close to my heart and that I find particularly successful.

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No 65 Read: ~ 3 min Words: ~ 580

How I got myself and the new blog sub-site into quite a predicament through a little carelessness.

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No 63 Read: ~ 20 min Words: ~ 2750

How can we overcome writer's block and turn what we see into an interesting story? How does it help us if we narrow our view further and further to a detail? And why does it help us to show the big picture again?

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No 62 Read: ~ 10 min Words: ~ 1200

Lippincott's Monthly Magazine was a 19th-century literary magazine that cleverly managed to attract well-known authors as well.

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No 60 Read: ~ 10 min Words: ~ 1280

This post is about the overview of the available state of affairs reports. The design should clearly differ from the previous category pages.

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