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Spirituality

The Vulgar Flux of Biomass

By Tor Rønnow on Thursday, January 28, 2010

hydrophobic
hydrophilic
electrostatic attraction
electrostatic repulsion
Repeat

grow
duplicate
grow duplicate grow
drift duplicate drift
Repeat

grow
duplicate
grow munch duplicate grow
swim duplicate munch swim
Repeat

stimulance
response
reproduce eat defend kill
trick kill eat grow
Repeat

eat grow
reproduce hatch
grow defend attack kill
run fly reproduce organize
Repeat

kill
communicate give birth
fear hope socialize love
reproduce repeat reproduce repeat
Repeat

Repeat. For Generations.

Music Spirituality

The Eternity of Bruckner

By Tor Rønnow on Monday, January 25, 2010

So it seems that I have at last passed my two-year long “Bach-phase” and is entering a Bruckner (and perhaps Mahler ?) phase. The Bruckner Symphonies are SO haunting, so powerful and so majestetic that only the tunes themselves justify such words. Listen up !

The long-draggged crescendoes have been snugged into many a motion-picture soundtrack, Avatar being one of the latest on the list, and you could say that these symphonies emulate all big stories in life or each of our lifestories, ups and downs, loveaffairs, tragedies. The beauty and struggles of a marathon could also be told by each of the pieces.. well.. I guess we could make whatever context befitting.

My favorites just now would be Bruckner no. 4, 7 and 8, the latter the by far loudest and perhaps most well-written of all the Symphonies of Bruckner. Go explore yourself !

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First marathon in 2010 – a cold battle !

By Tor Rønnow on Monday, January 11, 2010

Yesterday I managed to complete the demanding Kalundborg Vintermarathon and thereby officially declaring my marathon year 2010 for ‘opened’ ! As always in Kalundborg I enjoyed to meet many friends and fellows both amongst the partcipants and in the organizing club.

Similar traditional was the tough battle that we faught on the route… and as usual also against the windy conditions on the Røsnæs peninsulla. Man.. that was COLD !!! It was an uphill battle in more than one way.

You find the partly snow-covered pictures from the race here.

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Happy New Year !

By Tor Rønnow on Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year !

Today, we said goodbye to this very active running year if not to say decade by running the traditional Socialmarathon on Amager just outside Copenhagen, Denmark. We were blessed with extraodinary good weather and had a very nice run including the humoresque trip through the departure halls of Copenhagen Airport !

How better could we end this decade of the 00’s ? Well.. see the pictures of the day here.

I wish you all a great New Year – may your dreams come through !

Kind regards… Tor

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While we wait

By Tor Rønnow on Friday, December 25, 2009

So yesterday, 24-Dec-2009, we ran the very special “While we wait” marathon.. just a few hours before Christmas eve ! No less than 30 runners from all around Denmark seized the opportunity to record the marathon on this beatuful winter day in the totally snowcovered landscape on Fyn, Denmark.

Santa is ready for a marathon !

The race started at 8 in the morning and it was great fun… the next picture tells it all, doesn’t it ?

Merry Christmas… and enjoy the rest of the pictures here.