Blogging only became an item for me since Swami Atmananda suggested me to stop doing it.\nWhen I search my blogs for ‘blogging’, only the two blogs show up in which I mention my stopping it:<\/p>\n
Ramji and Meji meta revisited<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"GsiId6khPA\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=4460\">Tantralalalala 1<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"“Tantralalalala 1” — hansvandergugten.nl\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=4460&embed=true#?secret=selcJUDA5r#?secret=GsiId6khPA\" data-secret=\"GsiId6khPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In one of them there is a link to another one, in Dutch, dat ik ook vind met ‘bloggen’:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DFNvygThnu\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=4129\">Overal lingams, om me heen<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"“Overal lingams, om me heen” — hansvandergugten.nl\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=4129&embed=true#?secret=NYLVw1Lb6H#?secret=DFNvygThnu\" data-secret=\"DFNvygThnu\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This time in India it is clear that the habit of reporting on basically all that happens to me, has molten down to a memory.<br \/>\nYet a memory that is around quite often.<br \/>\nAs a subject to reflect on, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Already for weeks there is the idea to write a blog titled Postcard, and now I am for the first time behind a real computer to do some banking.<br \/>\nAnd I discover, to my own surprise, that the one and only thingy that I wrote from my tablet over a month ago, (I rather failed attempt that I kind of gave up on), already was titled Postcard.<br \/>\n(https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=4678)<\/p>\n<p>So, that’s why this one is the second one.<\/p>\n<p>When I would start writing this will without thinking end up a very long story, but let me be strong: I only will present a few pictures from meetings with Sindhu and other locals.<br \/>\nNo, not even that.<br \/>\nLet me show you my two favourite pictures.<\/p>\n<p>One from the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>And one from a schoolgirl that I saw dancing on a cultural festival of a school here in the neighbourhood (= Tiruvannamalai).<br \/>\nHere they dance with the whole body, the hands clearly included included.<br \/>\nWhen I saw this group of girls dancing there was something that got my attention, but I had no clue what it was. I went towards the stage and made a few pictures, but still no clue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4696\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_171944_resized-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"20170129_171944_resized\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_171944_resized.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_171944_resized-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_171944_resized-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then suddenly, right after the dance had stopped, the girl in green stood beside me.\u00a0Ah, can I make a picture of your hands, I asked.<br \/>\nWithout thinking and almost like a professional she did this:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4697\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_172110_resized_1-616x1024.jpg\" alt=\"20170129_172110_resized_1\" width=\"616\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_172110_resized_1.jpg 616w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_172110_resized_1-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here everything in a way revolves around Arunachala.<br \/>\nHere is how it looked from Sri Ramana Matriculation School, where this cultural festival happened:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4698\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_174341_resized-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"20170129_174341_resized\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_174341_resized.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_174341_resized-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_174341_resized-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, that was postcard numero dos.<br \/>\nI could easily make dozens of ‘m.<br \/>\nIn a way it is a way of\u00a0ruminating already swallowed experience.<br \/>\nAnd as such there is a great pleasure in doing so.<br \/>\nMooooooji (free after Ramji\/James Swartz).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4700\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"852\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1.jpg 852w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging only became an item for me since Swami Atmananda suggested me to stop doing it. When I search my blogs for ‘blogging’, only the two blogs show up in which I mention my stopping it: Ramji and Meji meta … <a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=4695\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mijn-weblog","category-my-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_174341_resized.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tD9I-1dJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"GsiId6khPA\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=4460\">Tantralalalala 1<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"“Tantralalalala 1” — hansvandergugten.nl\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=4460&embed=true#?secret=selcJUDA5r#?secret=GsiId6khPA\" data-secret=\"GsiId6khPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In one of them there is a link to another one, in Dutch, dat ik ook vind met ‘bloggen’:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DFNvygThnu\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=4129\">Overal lingams, om me heen<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"“Overal lingams, om me heen” — hansvandergugten.nl\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=4129&embed=true#?secret=NYLVw1Lb6H#?secret=DFNvygThnu\" data-secret=\"DFNvygThnu\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This time in India it is clear that the habit of reporting on basically all that happens to me, has molten down to a memory.<br \/>\nYet a memory that is around quite often.<br \/>\nAs a subject to reflect on, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Already for weeks there is the idea to write a blog titled Postcard, and now I am for the first time behind a real computer to do some banking.<br \/>\nAnd I discover, to my own surprise, that the one and only thingy that I wrote from my tablet over a month ago, (I rather failed attempt that I kind of gave up on), already was titled Postcard.<br \/>\n(https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=4678)<\/p>\n<p>So, that’s why this one is the second one.<\/p>\n<p>When I would start writing this will without thinking end up a very long story, but let me be strong: I only will present a few pictures from meetings with Sindhu and other locals.<br \/>\nNo, not even that.<br \/>\nLet me show you my two favourite pictures.<\/p>\n<p>One from the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>And one from a schoolgirl that I saw dancing on a cultural festival of a school here in the neighbourhood (= Tiruvannamalai).<br \/>\nHere they dance with the whole body, the hands clearly included included.<br \/>\nWhen I saw this group of girls dancing there was something that got my attention, but I had no clue what it was. I went towards the stage and made a few pictures, but still no clue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4696\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_171944_resized-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"20170129_171944_resized\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_171944_resized.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_171944_resized-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_171944_resized-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then suddenly, right after the dance had stopped, the girl in green stood beside me.\u00a0Ah, can I make a picture of your hands, I asked.<br \/>\nWithout thinking and almost like a professional she did this:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4697\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_172110_resized_1-616x1024.jpg\" alt=\"20170129_172110_resized_1\" width=\"616\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_172110_resized_1.jpg 616w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_172110_resized_1-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here everything in a way revolves around Arunachala.<br \/>\nHere is how it looked from Sri Ramana Matriculation School, where this cultural festival happened:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4698\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_174341_resized-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"20170129_174341_resized\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_174341_resized.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_174341_resized-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_174341_resized-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, that was postcard numero dos.<br \/>\nI could easily make dozens of ‘m.<br \/>\nIn a way it is a way of\u00a0ruminating already swallowed experience.<br \/>\nAnd as such there is a great pleasure in doing so.<br \/>\nMooooooji (free after Ramji\/James Swartz).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4700\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"852\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1.jpg 852w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging only became an item for me since Swami Atmananda suggested me to stop doing it. When I search my blogs for ‘blogging’, only the two blogs show up in which I mention my stopping it: Ramji and Meji meta … <a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=4695\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mijn-weblog","category-my-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170129_174341_resized.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tD9I-1dJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}