What do we teach our children when we offer them plastic hair-dye toy horses in advance of a ceremony commemorating the people that perished in the second war? I was thinking that when I was watching television on the evening of May fourth just before 8 pm, waiting for the annual broadcast of the ceremony …
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 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 …
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 …
Over the years the theme of gratitude crossed my path in many ways. I try to remind myself to count my blessings. Yet like so many of us, I also tend to get drawn into the every day drama of life, often forgetting in that process how much I have to be grateful for. I …
Blog picture: cliparts.nl I love this time of year. Short days, long evenings; time to stay indoors and read a book. And with new year’s eve approaching also time to reflect on what has been and think out of the box on where to go next year. It seems the new year always brings new …
