In my childhood, I was the ultimate pleaser. As an only child, grandchild and even only niece for the first 10 years of my life, I had this upside down pyramid of elders hovering above me, who all had their own expectations from me. And sometimes those expectations would differ from each other. My grandfather …
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 …
The spoken version of this blog, features as end note on ‘Dutchbuzz’, the radio hour for Internationals every Tuesday from 10 to 11 pm on ‘Den Haag FM and can be found in the Programme Archive of the Dutchbuzz podcasts, dated April May 15 , 2018. ••••••••• Some Chaos Please My favorite author, Michael Crichton,- …
What is it we all really want , deep down inside? We want to make the world a better place, right? We want to be able to live in peace with each other. To share agreeable events. To get help when needed. To know that when something should happen to us; someone in our neighborhood …
I drew a card today from the Nan Yar- Who Am I personal development deck: It was the 9 of Gifts The Gifts carry the color green. Green is the color of the heart chakra and the basic color of the natural world. As a symbol Gifts signify the meaning of life; the quest for …
3 things narcissists will tell you, when you stop bowing to their demands 1: That they never have problems like this with other people in their circle of friends 2: That they have always been flexible and patient with you until now. 3: That you are entirely to blame for whatever it was that happened. …
I did it again recently. I got stuck in the corner of my river of life, together with a whole lot of debris that had pushed me that way. How did I get stuck? Because of an old mechanism; the mechanism of pleasing others; thinking that the way to get love, affection and appreciation from …
Just like we write our own lives; we also write our own histories. Years ago someone in the USA advised me to start reading the books of historian Howard Zinn. Already after the first chapter my world started to change dramatically. Zinn was the first to make me aware that everything we read is an …
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 …
