The mother of a friend of mine ended up on the emergency ward of a The Hague hospital recently. She was in severe pain and there was little they could do but operate to take away the cause of the pain. Even more so, every minute of obstructed blood flow to the damaged part of …
So…what have y’all been up to over the Easter weekend? Did you go for a bike ride? Did you have an Easter brunch? Or did you go out to the beach to sit in the sun? Common things you’d say; things we like to do. Things we take for granted at times. Things we may …
If someone would have told me 7 years ago, I would write a blog in April 2019 because of the release of season 8 of Game of Thrones, I would have ‘lol-ed’, and said ‘NO WAY I am ever going to watch that horrid series where children get pushed off towers; women raped at weddings; …
We live in times of transformation. I hear many people around me talk about things going on in the world; things changing; things they are appalled about; things that worry them; the state of our earth; affairs going on in politics, concerns about climate change and plastic in the seas Professional astrologists point out that …
The Science of Psychology has a habit of dividing people into personality types based on fixed data. It seems to me however people are way too unique and complex to be comprised into the cubicle of set traits. I also feel its a rather ‘brainy’ way of evaluating people; judging them more on stereotype characteristics …
‘The Tower” or ‘Detachment’ as I prefer to call it in the Nan War Who Am I cards, is a card people prefer to keep in the pack during a reading. For many it signifies they have to detach (which is true btw) from what they are used to; what they are taught and therefore think they …
This blog is for all beautiful, mindful, thoughtful, wise women out there who are ready to embrace their grand-mother identity and for all the men who recognize, honor and respect this extraordinary trait in women. It is also a blog to convince myself , about a truth I recently discovered. Here’s what happened: I turned …
It must have come to most of our attention that the world is in a pretty hectic state. Ice caps melting; storms ravaging the continents; floods threatening the homes of many while in other parts draughts are making water a dangerously scarce commodity. On other locations, volcanic eruptions are driving people out of their homesteads. …
About 15 to 20 years years ago I had the immense pleasure of doing a yoga teacher training at the Kripalu Institute of Yoga and Health in Massachusetts. It was in the days back when the school was already famous and well known yet still relatively small. I treasure the good memories I have. Silence …
Over the past few years of writing my weekly blogs for Dutchbuzz, I have paid special attention to using positive wording and phrasing. You’ll find very few ‘terribles’ ‘disgustings’ ‘degenerates’ or curses in my blogs and hardly any ‘no’s, ‘not’s’ or don’t’s. To me they are red flags. I firmly believe our senses work like …
