A letter circulated on social media this week addressed to Albert Einstein. It’s from the University of Bern, Switzerland, dated June 6th 1907. That would make it one-hundred-eleven years old tomorrow . How time flies. I smelled a rat however, for the letter is in English. A German professor in 1907 using English to …
“It’s not success; it’s not growth; it’s not happiness; it’s the love of life that cradles the moment that signifies the end is in sight. Do you ever talk about death or dying at a gathering of friends or family ? Or on more personal grounds; with your partner, parent, child, friend? ‘Wow, where did that …
In the Alphabet of Daily Life; and by that I mean the routines one tends to follow in order to make things go smooth and the way you want; I find that the C of Coincidence can at times play incredibly surprising parts. Mostly I try to adopt the attitude and live by the conviction …
Are any of you updated on the score how many people actually left Facebook after the call to leave the worlds biggest social media site, for I’ve lost track. Last week there was a sudden hype; then we saw Mark Zuckerberg defending himself in front of some senators who hadn’t really done their homework; and …
With the sun shining bright as it did and the sky ice-blue as it was; I went to The Hague’s Scheveningen beach this weekend in spite of the freezing cold February weather. I went there to do what is called the Daily Energy Routine, a series of simple exercises designed by Energy Medicine author and …
I watched a program last night on Dutch television that brought me to tears. It was about children who get specialized education because they have what is seen as a learning disorder. They either are dyslectic or have problems calculating numbers or in general find it hard to transfer knowledge from paper to their cognitive …
Modern day society is a demanding place to live in with a lot of overwhelming things to choose from. To protect ourselves against stress, nature has provided us with a build in stress defender; an energy pathway that runs through the body and transports the flow of energy. This particular transport system goes by the …
Can you imagine yourself doing absolutely nothing for 5 full minutes? I thought it would be a nice challenge for you to try out. Especially women seem to suffer from the always-doing-something affliction, scouting things that still need to be done. Men apparently have a nothing box that they can go to with a ‘gone …
A friend of mine who celebrated Christmas in England worded it exactly right. In the text message she sent me around midnight of Christmas day she wrote: “I’m like an enormous beached whale. Finally alone on top of my bed with a scalding hot cup of tea” Then she continued by sending me pictures of …
Call me a romantic, but it is my personal belief that ‘in the old days’, when we were living in tribes; sharing the results of the hunt, weaving baskets with each other for the same purpose; gathering berries and roots to make community meals – we were in a way better off than we are …
