Some people look at me with disbelief when I tell them how I much love the season of Autumn. Where others might feel sorry to see the leaves starting to fall and the summer season leave; I love to feel the wind clear the dusty dryness and see the rain nourish nature and clean the …
As especially the inhabitants of The Hague may have noticed today, the third Tuesday of September, is Prinsjesdag in The Netherlands; the traditional reading of the governments declaration on how the available resources are going to be divided and ruled. The tradition begins with the our local royalty setting off in their glass carriage, in …
Hardly no one needs reminding what day it is today. 9/11 is branded in our memories as the day the world changed. You would think, after the thousands of years and generations humanity spent evolving; we would have learned to live a little bit more at peace with each other ; but instead division and …
In the old days – and by those I mean the days that we were all still living without the help of multinationals, stock markets or pharmaceutical industries- when we travelled; we did that basically to explore ourselves through exploring the world. On a personal level the aim was to observe other ways of …
Those among you who are sensitive to energy fluctuations might already have felt it; it sure is busy in the etheric energies of life. Big changes are taking place. The thing is we don’t get a briefing on what is going on; humanity never does. Evolution doesn’t send out a memo to inform the people …
What is it our consumer societies are striving for the most? And before you answer this question keep in mind nobody can really be blamed for doing it for its is culturally instilled in all of our lives. People are programmed to think this way from the day they are born. Children in consumer societies …
In my childhood, I was the ultimate pleaser. As an only child, grandchild and even only niece for the first 10 years of my life, I had this upside down pyramid of elders hovering above me, who all had their own expectations from me. And sometimes those expectations would differ from each other. My grandfather …
A letter circulated on social media this week addressed to Albert Einstein. It’s from the University of Bern, Switzerland, dated June 6th 1907. That would make it one-hundred-eleven years old tomorrow . How time flies. I smelled a rat however, for the letter is in English. A German professor in 1907 using English to …
“It’s not success; it’s not growth; it’s not happiness; it’s the love of life that cradles the moment that signifies the end is in sight. Do you ever talk about death or dying at a gathering of friends or family ? Or on more personal grounds; with your partner, parent, child, friend? ‘Wow, where did that …
The spoken version of this blog, features as end note on ‘Dutchbuzz’, the radio hour for Internationals every Tuesday from 10 to 11 pm on ‘Den Haag FM and can be found in the Programme Archive of the Dutchbuzz podcasts, dated April May 15 , 2018. ••••••••• Some Chaos Please My favorite author, Michael Crichton,- …
