Tom Brown
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South-African, studied in Pretoria at Unisa and UP, I went to a dual medium primary school and Afrikaans high school, NG Church mostly and sunday school Methodist. At school achieved top positions in science and mathematics olympiads, after as well completing two years of engineering studies with very good results but I did not graduate, had to stop due to mental health difficulties.
Graduating under WK Bartoszek MSc (1997) and N Sauer PhD (2006) formal interests would be in abstract analysis and broadly applied mathematics. I had permanent teaching positions at Unisa and at Wits, However since not having been academically active, and as such absent from formal academic research for very long now, years even.
I am still totally isolated and financially barely getting by. Although I am still studying mathematics and applications, more popular accessible kind of work, while looking forward to hopefully be active in research and teaching again.
Not involved at all with any social media, and having time for writing, leisure, watching movies, reading fiction, classics mostly, and music. I miss my friends, and would really love getting outdoors and in nature more.
These are my stories!
Keep your feet on the ground and reach for the Stars!
Chalk and cheese
Posted on Fri, 15 Aug 2025
Chalk and cheese, six or half-a-dozen? Experimenting!? Some people say procrastination is really just laziness Luigi? I don't think so the real reason is often perfectionism, it goes a bit deeper. A serious handicap in any case.
Good luck...
Read full commentPosted in My Best Mate and I
lovely words, beautiful images
Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2025
Jenny! What beautiful language! Such as "vast oceans of sky" ; "crystal rainbows of delight".
Inspired for sure! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Fragments Of Life
breathtaking
Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2025
Lovely, breathtaking, I wish I could see them for myself! We have them in the southern hemisphere too, called "Southern Lights" then? or "Southern Aurora"?
You would have to be a lot more south, and if you are very lucky too, I hear...
Read full commentPosted in Borealis
collecting postcards
Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2025
collecting postcards
Rhiannon when I was in school I collected postcards my mother helped me find penpals overseas to write and swop and that. The one man was in Russia he was in a bit of danger actually, remember it was in the time of the...
Read full commentPosted in Discovered old postcards
a lot worse
Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2025
You get a lot worse than that believe me.
Read full commentPosted in The Watchers In The Walls
Bind us Together
Posted on Sun, 03 Aug 2025
Bind us together Lord, bind us together Lord
Bind us together, bind us together with Love
Bind us, bind us together Lord bind us together Lord
Bind us together with chords that cannot be broken
Bind...
Read full commentPosted in Jesus Christ divides!
Romance
Posted on Fri, 01 Aug 2025
The harp is beuatiful I like panflute also, like a really grand date, an anniversary leaving the kids with parents and that, to re-discover true romance!
The story where King Saul threw David with his spear just as he was bending down also...
Read full commentPosted in Crafted and Mastered
Good story Jenny!
Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2025
Good story Jenny! "whispered through threads of conversation",
All the best! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Hollyhock Tears Or Whispers Of Gods.
Yes these days
Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2025
Yes these days you can forget about privacy the whole world may just as well looking, not even for a bit of quiet relief. Like being on reality TV all the time.
Excellent story Jess, but I would have liked a bit more context, although you...
Read full commentPosted in The Watchers In The Walls
A violin is a bit
Posted on Tue, 29 Jul 2025
A violin is a bit of a valuable item to be left lying around!
See you Rhiannon! Tom
Read full commentPosted in My Absent-Minded Violinist
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