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Ansichtkaart // postcard

Will try to show here two pictures. Never done before (by me that is) on a tablet. Ik ga proberen om hier twee foto’s te laten zien. Eerste keer dat ik dit probeer op mijn tablet.   I give up, … Continue reading

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Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Last weekend was weekend number eight of this Taotraining that I am attending since two years. I will not try to put into words what the content was of it. What I will do is give an impression of how … Continue reading

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Meetings with Sindhu and others, spring 2016.

Last week (that was half September) I bought a ticket to fly to Chennai again, this time on the second Xmass day. Hopefully by the first half of Januari I will again go to Tiruvannamalai. And looking forward to meeting … Continue reading

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Vanished twins / Verlorene Zwillinge

A few weeks ago I went to a clairvoyant woman. She spoke to me for about one and a half hour. A friend of mine knows her and at some point he adviced me to go to her, ‘she will … Continue reading

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Intellectueel plezier, intellectual joy, बौद्धिक खुशी (bauddhik khushee)

Today I watched for the second time an interview with the writer Jonathan Safran Foer about his novel Here I am. Here you can watch the interview, it is in English and it is subtitled in Dutch: http://www.vpro.nl/boeken/programmas/boeken/2016/23-oktober.html Vandaag bekeek … Continue reading

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Another ode to Mother

Yesterday I stumbled upon a kind of script that’s totally new to me called nsibidi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsibidi And an artist (Victor Ekpuk) using this script as an inspiration to make art. This morning I see this one: Victor Ekpuk_Ode to Mother

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Ode aan wijlen mijn moeder // Ode to my late mother

Spontane actie na het toevallig vinden van deze video: After stumbling upon this video:  

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Legacy Origins of Civilization

(This blog has been in draft since August last year. I post it finally, no idea about why the delay). Just watched a youtube that was posted some time ago by Unnat on facebook, and that has waited patiently in … Continue reading

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Brrrrr, back home.

Strange it is, to be back in Holland after two month hanging out in India. And again there where this thoughts about willing to give it a try to live back home more in the way living goes in India. … Continue reading

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Turkish delight in India

Just for fun and from deep down almost out of necessity a few scribbles in English too. This morning I read this sentence: It is barely dawn, and the sky is pink as Turkish delight. It is the opening sentence … Continue reading

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