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Crossing the Sound

My mother was afraid of dark water. Throughout her life she avoided all situations – however appealing they appeared – that involved dark oceans, ponds, lakes. She knew they would make her feel nauseous. No moonlit scinny-dipping. No romantic midnight-strolls along the boardwalk. No summernight-fishing for mackerel in the Norwegian fjords. No shooting-star-watching from the [...]

We all have our everchanging ups and downs. The ups and downs of one person might only be a ripple in the vast ocean of mother Earth’s inhabitants. But when all of our ups and downs are compiled they form interesting waves of moods, happiness, sadness, fear and optimism. Tjeck out the emotional barometer of [...]

First – and only – frosty day in Copenhagen this winter

Yesterday I hosted a small dinnerparty celebrating Reflexioner’s 5-years birthday – and the ‘birth’ of SHARE A BRAINWAVE. This circle of friends see each other quite often for informal dinner-and-discussion-nights and we’re usually not a crowd who formalizes things by bringing flowers or presents for the hostess. But yesterday every guest spontainiously brought a wave-related [...]

Wave originates from Old English: wafian, from Proto-Germanic *wab-, from Proto-Indo-European base *webh- “to move to and fro, to weave”. Thus one can easily fit the handwave into the concept of brainwaves or even waves as physical phenomena: The movement back and forth. So far, we’ve discussed royalty a little but we haven’t really discussed the royal wave – [...]

Smiling is a benign virus

I just read a wonderful post at Creating Passionate Users. It’s all about smiling – and how smiling makes other people smile. With a lot of great examples, that really… make you smile. …sometimes it’s the smallest of things that can make all the difference. Things that aren’t bullet points in the brochure or check [...]

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