Did you know that 56 out of the total of 78 cards of the Game of Tarot, are based on the ordinary card game; and that this ‘Minor Arcana’ or ‘Lesser Arcana’ as it is called, adapted the Spades, Clubs, Hearts and Diamonds; using their Number- and Court-cards to give a deeper meaning to daily life …
A locksmith came to my house recently. Using his strong grip, my oldest son had opened the front door from the outside while it was on its safety lock on the inside. Apparently, when you manage to do that, something shifts within the lock, causing the key to stay stuck in the lock unless the …
Text: Ingrid Schippers Picture: Juliet Dreyer I once heard a story that came from a 200 year old little booklet , holding records of real life court cases from the 18th century. The particular story I am going to tell you about, always stayed with me as it so pointedly shows how following Fate, rather …
Don’t Offer the Good Biscuits; Abridged version of the spoken end-of-the-program-blog of June 11 2019 for Dutchbuzz; the radio broadcast for Internationals on The Hague FM, every Tuesday from 9-10 when in season. a 3 minute listen to. In the world around me I see a lot of angry people. Angry at their governments for …
Who Do You Think You Are? This is more than the question on where you come from. You might think who you are is determined by the name you were given at birth, the family you grew up in or the cultural values that you were taught; yet a whole lot of who you are, …
Life has a habit of bringing us these day-to-day challenges. Next to the big stuff, we also get the small irritations between partners or petty power struggles at the office; parents, children, businesspartners… Any relationship really has its own bumps in the road and even small pebbles can cause big impact on our functioning together; …
Hardly no one needs reminding what day it is today. 9/11 is branded in our memories as the day the world changed. You would think, after the thousands of years and generations humanity spent evolving; we would have learned to live a little bit more at peace with each other ; but instead division and …
In the old days – and by those I mean the days that we were all still living without the help of multinationals, stock markets or pharmaceutical industries- when we travelled; we did that basically to explore ourselves through exploring the world. On a personal level the aim was to observe other ways of …
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 …
Do you have that sometimes when you find an old diary and read something you totally forgot about and yet what you wrote tells you that in a way you understood more of life and what goes on in it than you do now? ‘Forgotten Wisdom” so to speak. Things you used to abide by …
