Can you hear me?
Generally speaking, I try to avoid mistreating the language of Shakespeare – which I’m not very good at – and I’m content to post in french, even when the community I’m part of is overwhelmingly English-speaking.
But today, I wanted to gauge just how much, in this age of machine translation, language still acts as a barrier to the sharing of ideas and online visibility.
Let’s just say I’m betting that the number of views will be significantly higher...
However, I wouldn’t want your visit to be purely ‘for scientific purposes’. So, let’s get to know each other...
My nickname is Falko (ᚠ), a Belgian born in Leuven in 1966, Catholic, married with three children, a doting grandfather… A rain-drinker, mist-eater, stationary traveller and compulsive webmaster, who would sell his soul for a plate of linguine alle vongole.
On Palimpseste, I publish notes jotted down during my wanderings, my reading, my encounters… Shared moments, fragments of quests, bursts of laughter or righteous anger. A bit of everything, but not just anything.
Recently, a reader asked me why the articles I publish on Bear are so long. The reason is simple: my tastes are varied and my interests particularly eclectic. I spend long hours studying a subject, poring over a rare expression or a strange concept, and then I move on to something else.
I wish to keep a record of this research, which has taken up a significant part of my life. I am therefore not writing primarily with the comfort and interest of potential readers in mind, but rather to preserve my own memories and to document an intellectual and spiritual journey. Your kind attention is the ‘icing on the cake’.
Bear is the perfect place to achieve this goal. I love its simplicity, its minimalism, its ‘less is more’ philosophy, and its flexibility. And I love its community: whilst I don’t mind whether people read my posts, I do enjoy reading yours. I’m discovering people who are both complex and modest, who often share their joys and sorrows with honesty – those little moments of everyday life that, together, form the exciting adventure of a lifetime. Here, we’re not looking for the spectacular, but for the hidden beauty in things. Thank you for that!
But I’m getting carried away! See you soon, dear bearbloggers, on the Discover feed, which I’ve become addicted to.