When I was a teenager I was assaulted on the street in broad daylight. It was a weekday around three o’clock and I was cycling home from my flute practice in the inner city of my hometown in the Netherlands. I remember seeing a small group of teenage girls walking on the pavement ahead of…
The Queen of Poor Me
Sometimes I hear a sentence and it immediately gets stuck in my head. Usually it’s because the words are so beautifully put together and/or the sentence has a meaning that deeply resonates with me. Today (in a podcast about my favorite TV-series of all things) I heard a sentence that resonated inside me: Do not…
Balance
When I think about nature, a word that quickly comes to me is balance. The sun rises, the sun sets. There is ebb and flow in the sea. Flowers bloom and die. Animals in the wild live in balance with their environment. And so on. It seems to me that many of us human beings…
About romantic love - part 2
For the past eight days I have sent about three text messages per day to a dear friend, all with the same message: please remember to drink and eat. Why did I do that? First of all, of course I asked this person beforehand if these reminders were appreciated (which they were). So then what…
A world on the brink
Oh, how I love reading something that inspires me so much that I just have to write about it! I just read a piece written by a dear fellow-seeker friend (I believe he would be OK with me calling him that). Funnily enough in his writing he mentions the Netflix series Stranger Things which is…