When I was 23 years old, my father very unexpectedly passed away due to a medical procedure gone wrong. I remember leaving the hospital where it happened and going back to my house. To go home I needed to walk through a street where a typical Dutch market fair was going on, with hundreds of …
Coming weekend, November 14, following good old Dutch tradition, Sinterklaas and his consort Piet will arrive at Scheveningen harbor again. Nobody really knows where the old custom comes from. Researching the history of it I found many different interpretations of the out of the box couple. On the Dutch isles up North for instance, Terschelling, …
Animal Kingdom has a lot to teach us. A lion or a cat for instance teaches us that some good tongue smacking, having a heartfelt yawn and stretching the limbs after a nap , is important to get the energies flowing. It makes me wonder how many people in our Western World in fact jump …
