Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Musings of an Ordinary Man
    Musings of an Ordinary Man
    Musings of an Ordinary Man
    Ebook70 pages19 minutes

    Musings of an Ordinary Man

    By Louis Knobel

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Louis Knobel was born in South Africa in 1946. He has been actively involved in nature conservation and has also worked for many years as Consultant for major organizations in various fields, including IT. He has travelled extensively and has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Belgium, France and the United States of America as well as countries in Africa. His interests include conservation, photography, fine arts, hand-crafts and writing. He is a vegetarian and ardent animal lover.
    This, his debut work has been many years in the making and it covers various stages in the life of one man. Though he sees himself as neither a poet nor a philosopher, this Mensan has a remarkable ability for lateral thinking which brings an uncommon depth to the interpretations he links to everyday events and objects.
    As a writer, Louis is able to paint clear word pictures and the spiritual depth and vision he portrays, often leaves the reader filled with new insight into otherwise ordinary events.
    This book has the ingredients of a superb travel companion in which the reader can find subjects ranging from observing an ordinary seashell through to experiencing joy, tears, prayer and love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateOct 8, 2010
    ISBN9781453569924
    Musings of an Ordinary Man
    Author

    Louis Knobel

    Louis Knobel was born in South Africa in 1946. He has been actively involved in nature conservation and has also worked for many years as Consultant for major organizations in various fields, including IT. He has travelled extensively and has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Belgium, France and the United States of America as well as countries in Africa. His interests include conservation, photography, fine arts, hand-crafts and writing. He is a vegetarian and ardent animal lover. This, his debut work has been many years in the making and it covers various stages in the life of one man. Though he sees himself as neither a poet nor a philosopher, this Mensan has a remarkable ability for lateral thinking which brings an uncommon depth to the interpretations he links to everyday events and objects. As a writer, Louis is able to paint clear word pictures and the spiritual depth and vision he portrays, often leaves the reader filled with new insight into otherwise ordinary events. This book has the ingredients of a superb travel companion in which the reader can find subjects ranging from observing an ordinary seashell through to experiencing joy, tears, prayer and love.

    Related to Musings of an Ordinary Man

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      My Story Finding A Place To Heal

      Feb 26, 2020

      My Story Finding A Place To Heal
      4 min read

    • Article

      Waves of GOOD FORTUNE

      Sep 29, 2020

      Pippa Best, from Penzance, Cornwall Dipping my toes into the icy Cornish waters, I shuddered. Although it was the middle of summer, the sea was still shockingly cold. ‘I can’t jump in, this is nuts,’ I muttered to myself. It was July 2017 and I was

      4 min read

    • Article

      Summer: A Love Story

      Apr 20, 2021

      It is a squalid time. The body grows tired of being a body. Sweat. Always. A thin film of it on the skin. Do not say dewy. Do not say glisten. I dream of endless green. Of wet. Of rain hammering the Earth. Of buds sprouting. I want to insist on life

      2 min read

    • Article

      In Summer We’re Reborn

      Jun 7, 2019

      In Summer We’re Reborn
      5 min read

    • Article

      Mountain Time

      Jan 1, 2021

      In the air you don’t know who you are or where My own self feels it is in wind being born These are currents a man made one eighth of smokeless fire fears but chooses A path south from Anchorage to a Mountain House Ungovern the northern land to pass

      10 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jan 1, 2023

      And god created the waves and we the graves beneath, bodies madeparticulate by the force of water against water, water against rock, againsttime. I descend into the deep in a kind of prayer, listen to its centuries.Make me pay, will you, make me hurt

      3 min read

    • Article

      Jess Lloyd-Mostyn

      May 27, 2022

      Jess Lloyd-Mostyn
      3 min read

    • Article

      Jess Lloyd-Mostyn

      May 27, 2022

      Jess Lloyd-Mostyn
      3 min read

    • Article

      ULA Majewski

      Dec 12, 2018

      ULA Majewski
      2 min read

    • Article

      Praise Every Morning

      Mar 2, 2022

      MORNING has broken…’ I hummed quietly to myself as I stared, first, eastwards, to see if the sky had begun to lighten, then upwards into the deep, deep inky blue to gaze at the stars. ‘Like the first morning…’ Our late village priest claimed that the

      2 min read

    • Article

      Lagavulin BAY

      May 10, 2023

      Lagavulin BAY
      6 min read

    • Article

      Same River Twice

      Feb 3, 2022

      Same River Twice
      8 min read

    • Article

      Sailing In The South Pacific

      Sep 3, 2020

      Sailing In The South Pacific
      7 min read

    • Article

      Water People

      Sep 17, 2020

      Water People
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Journey Back Home

      Jun 24, 2020

      The Journey Back Home
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Denial Of Death

      Sep 15, 2018

      I had left my passport at an inn we stayed at for a night or so whose name I couldn’t remember. This is how it began. The next hotel would not receive me. A beautiful hotel, in an orange grove, with a view of the sea. How casually you accepted the ro

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Sacred Place

      Nov 22, 2022

      A Sacred Place
      5 min read

    • Article

      Sacred Play

      Feb 27, 2024

      NATURE HAS ALWAYS soaked me in waterfalls of wonder. In a redwood forest, when I crawled into the hollow of an ancient tree and listened to its centuries of stories. By a lake, as I watched thousands of flamingos suddenly take flight. In the ocean, w

      3 min read

    • Article

      In The Belly Of Hell

      Mar 13, 2018

      In The Belly Of Hell
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Harbour

      Jul 3, 2022

      the fact is the falling.the dream is the tree—Lucille Clifton 1. Always the same coast, always the same sea When I look out the train window there are whales inside the waves. When Itouch the surface, the sea pulls away. When the whales reach the sho

      1 min read

    • Article

      Thirteen Ways of Looking at FIRE

      Apr 7, 2020

      Thirteen Ways of Looking at FIRE
      10 min read

    • Article

      Itchy Feet-itis

      Jun 2, 2021

      Itchy Feet-itis
      9 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Sep 1, 2019

      before I was one I heard every soundas a sound that had never been heard,before I was one I saw every lightas a light separate from dark, colorhidden in a place I had not been.Before I was one I used feet to wakenin water, to pedal through air,hands

      1 min read

    • Article

      Creature Comforts

      Apr 24, 2020

      I HAD LIVED IN AND AROUND SYDNEY, Australia, for the majority of my life and had never been out on the ocean until that April day. It’s not that I was afraid of the water, though I never learned to swim well. My life just took me in another direction

      1 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Musings of an Ordinary Man

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Musings of an Ordinary Man - Louis Knobel

      Copyright © 2010 by Louis Knobel.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2010913013

      ISBN: Hardcover  978-1-4535-6991-7

      ISBN: Softcover    978-1-4535-6990-0

      ISBN: Ebook        978-1-4535-6992-4

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

      0-800-644-6988

      www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk

      Orders@xlibrispublishing.co.uk

      300928

      I dedicate this book to the person who is my greatest inspiration,

      my trusted companion and best friend. My wife, Malie Knobel

      Contents

      The State of the World

      Prayer

      Time’s Passing

      When?

      Stars

      Storm Clouds Over the Sea

      Heartbreak

      Perceptions

      Rain

      Thoughts Inspired at the Sea

      Sea Shell

      Christmas Stars

      Inheritance

      Communications

      The Dream

      Fishermen

      Lighthouse

      Night Noises in a Small Town

      Freedom

      Fragile

      Rose

      The Eagle and Its Prey

      God’s Gift

      Bethlehem

      The Tears of a Father

      Outreach

      Depression

      Broken Buildings

      Night Thoughts

      Love Song

      Marriage Vows

      The Gate to Paradise

      The Route Through Life

      My Friend the Beggar

      My Universe

      Sunday Afternoon

      Loneliness

      Birdsong

      Kudu

      Immeasurable Values

      The Dimensions of Love

      Anniversary

      God’s Use for Us

      Grieving

      Feelings of Another Day

      Divine Knowledge

      Comparisons

      Kalahari Night

      For These Gifts I Thank You

      Of Man And of God

      Testament

      Epitaph

      Introduction

      I consider myself to be neither a poet nor a philosopher.

      I am merely an ordinary man who, like any other ordinary person, sees ordinary things as they are. When I

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1