Tom Brown
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Apart from studies in the natural sciences I am interested in languages and literature in general as well as religion. Lately I have been writing more popular general interest essays and also trying for a bit of balance with mathematics and while keeping things understandable for most people.
I am South-African born and bred. At high school I excelled in science and mathematics competitions and completed two years of mechanical engineering with very good results. That didn't work out due to ill health. I have had permanent teaching positions at Unisa and at Wits.
Graduating with an MSc under WK Bartoszek (Unisa 1997) and a PhD under N Sauer (Pretoria 2006) formal interests would be in abstract analysis: Markov operators and stochastic processes; vector valued Laplace transforms applied to semigroups and families of evolution equations (empathies). It has now been quite a while since I was academically active I don't have much published. The way things have developed was beyond my control and I am very isolated.
Favourite authors are Jules Verne, HG Wells and Jack London, Shakespeare and poets William Blake and Dylan Thomas. I like adventure, science fiction and fantasy movies my all time greatest are the Narnia stories and the Lord of the Rings.
The meal best enjoyed is a breakfast of bacon eggs on toast fried chips with fresh orange juice, and for supper an ox-tail stew. I like eating out romantic. For recreation nature hikes, camping and fishing, listening to good music and reading, classics mostly, and good movies. I love dogs my best one was a Maltese poodle Freddy. I love rain and lightning thunderstorms and rainbows. As well as writing and publishing here on Abctales.
God is in the details. God is in the timing.
5.7 litre Ford V8
Posted on Mon, 24 Feb 2014
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Yes it's clear now, your poem
Posted on Sat, 16 Sep 2017
Yes it's clear now, your poem describes a birth, a baby, the beginnings of life and later the same, born again and to salvation. Do you have children? I don't, sometimes I think it must be nice they melt your heart. Just being themselves people...
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Please Note!
Posted on Sat, 21 Oct 2017
Please note some facts are not meant as literal, there might also be misunderstandings. Take what you like and leave the rest.
Tom Brown
Read full commentPosted in A Mustard Seed and the Kingdom of Heaven
Something Greater, a Higher Power
Posted on Sat, 30 Sep 2017
Something Greater, a Higher Power, Prime Mover, Creator God call Him/ It/ She what you will. Thanks for the comment! Very sensible, meaningful and sober. Eish! Tom
Read full commentPosted in To Exist
Isn't it amazing
Posted on Wed, 20 Sep 2017
Isn't it amazing how unique a gesture can be? It's like fingerprint.
Posted in The Journey
People of the sky!
Posted on Sun, 14 May 2017
Children of the sky! A beautiful poem but it could perhaps be rounded off a bit? This really is just my impression, and also I probably can't be specific.
Keep well Mary-Ann! Tom Brown
Read full commentPosted in Into The Blue
Nicotine is a bastard.
Posted on Tue, 19 Sep 2017
Nicotene is a bastard. For most people cold turkey works best. Four months is long you can kick the habit I'm sure.
All the best! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Because I can
A snapshot. Makes me think
Posted on Wed, 20 Sep 2017
A snapshot. Makes me think of the old instamatic and those few photos, such treasured memories. What a lovely little poem Mary-Ann, so sweet and sensitive.
Keep well!
Read full commentPosted in The Journey
Beautiful Mary-Ann!
Posted on Sat, 16 Sep 2017
Beautiful Mary-Ann! And the answer would be Yes? And then, towards the end? Well I don't think this is about romantic love, a crush. It is about being born again.
Keep well! Tom
Read full commentPosted in First Love
Have you read the 'Time machine?' by HG
Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017
Have you read the 'Time machine' by HG Wells? And just as prophetic and as beautiful the 'Country of the blind'. They are very short books.
To be honest your poem by itself doesn't make much sense to me. Is it a collection sketches? A...
Read full commentPosted in time travelling
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