Week 3: The best foundation: Holy Ground. (100 challenge)
The movie “The Soloist” is about a homeless man in Los Angeles. He has nothing but an old shopping cart filled with junk and an old violin. No day is the same and yet all the days are the same. Every evening he finds a place on the porch of an empty shop in the…
Week 2: About the What, Why and How of a Rule of Life (100words/100dayChallenge)
Day 8: What, Why, and How of a Rule of Life. HOLD ON, Just lose like the leaves and yet, deeply rooted at the core. This week, I’ll take you along the What, Why, and How of a Rule of Life. Today first the explanation of the Letters HOLD ON. H= Holy Ground. A good…
Week 1:100 words a day /100 day Challenge: An Introduction.
Day 1: You’ll get used to it, ma’am! You get used to it, ma’am. The doctor said kindly after I scooped up my list of discomforts. The corona symptoms come in many forms. All that’s left is to adjust your active lifestyle. I thought of what hubby Jelle whispered to me a year ago when…
Photoblog: On the necessity of beauty in the bedroom (and beyond)
“The necessity for beauty and harmony is a basic need for a creative soul and a breeding ground for the true, good, and beautiful that I like to nurture in the most intimate space of our home. One is a feeding place for the other. ” (ponderings from my journal). Bedroom happiness A year…
Mary Magdalen Reading by Rogier van der Weijden; An invitation to meditation
This is a painting from Maria Magdalen painted by Rogier van der Weijden. I used it during one of our Online Retreats. What do we see? We see a woman, Mary from Magdala. She is reading and absorbed in what she is reading. Thinking and embracing what she is reading. We got inspired by…
A snapshot: Workspace Wageningen is Open! (+2 Filmclips)
First, there is the fun of the preparations: flour from the mill nearby, homemade bread, sweet and savory little things to eat. This is what happened in the afternoon of 29 september: The curtain falls, and Jelle explains that this map has been released by the University of Wageningen. It forms a beautifully…
“Let’s Fly Like The Eagles!” Upcoming Online Retreats, Welcome.
“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary,…
Your Very Own Personal Retreat
You are a God of distance, and yet very near. I do not see You, but I want to experience You. I invite You into this room and into my writing. May I be aware of Your being here with me. Maybe it is not possible to join in on an online retreat, and…
8 elements of Organic Gardening in a Dutch Terracedhouse
The planet is like a woman in pain of childbirth. Fire’s in Canada, the heat in the United States, floods in parts of Europe, the corona crisis which is still far from being over. What can we do in our small neighborhood? Here is an impression and some ideas: A plan is coming to…
A poem about belonging
One sister here wrote to the other a rondeau/ rondel A Rondel/rondeau is an eight-line song that was widely used and sung in the Middle Ages. Another example of a rondeau is In Flanders Fields I’m sharing this poem here with permission, but I am not allowed to mention who of the sisters wrote it.…