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…
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…
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.…
High water in the Low lands and a Winterwonderland
Our second lock-down here in the Netherlands was disrupted by a wonderful surprise. First of all, due to the melting snow upriver in Germany and Switzerland, the rivers rose 14 meters above sea level. Normally, most of the Netherlands/Lowlands are below sea level—hence our country’s name. Every year, I feel the adrenaline rush through…
A hidden life in a time of crisis
“One day we know what it’s for, there will be no more riddles; we’ll know why we live.” Franziska Jagerstratter Obviously, the pandemic is taking up quite a bit of our attention. Unfortunately, it could make us silently overlook nearly 75 years of liberation since World War II. The film A Hidden Life was released…
Unexpected!
Our friend Jantien, recently became a mother after nine years of waiting! She wrote a lovely text in which she played with words and perspectives. I asked her if she wanted to be a guest blogger. And she agreed! Quite a change to have such a little one to take care of. Is n’t he…
A walk to the well
15 juni 2019- My friend and language teacher Laura invited me to celebrate her birthday in their Vikendica in Bistrinci. A small second home, where local people often spend their weekends. The literal translation is Little Weekend. It is localized on the outskirts of town. 30 kilometers away from Osijek.…