There are a thousand things to say about the contrast of coming to the city after the peace of the mountains. It really has been a life away from the world, and living in a city like Amsterdam is being total part of the world again. The energy that anything can happen is quite fantastic….
Author: sarahdomogala
it’s been two weeks
And it already feels like another lifetime. So different from life in Amsterdam. It is freedom to know how many totally different ways you can live your life. Nothing is what it seems!
working hours
I have two more weeks to get a sh*t lot of work done. Reading, watching, interviewing, writing an a lot of thinking. I counted and as it looks now I will have a total of 22 hours to get it done. I will have to make it a military operation to use every minute of those…
hope for Israel and Palestine?
Hope tends to sink into my shoes (like we say in dutch) when I read the newspapers, so much aggression and despair is going around our planet these days. The Shamans who live in our French village say it rains so much due to all that darkness, mother earth cleans herself… I look different now at…
clean
I got used to the clean source water, the clean air, no radiation, the darkness and silence of the mountains. And it is only when I don’t have access to these basics, I realize how they are human needs. In the city we think our living environment is clean, but every time I come back…
onto the battlefield
You fall in love, you move in together, you have children. Somewhere in the midst of all of that the love bond starts to change into contract negotiations. Wether you want it or not, how much you may want to protect the romantic ideal, you will have to start to work together. Discussing home chores,…
Last walk in the forrest before the city
Almost everyday I walk up the mountain in front of our house with our dog and our neighbour’s dog. Loup and Beilby are best friends and they chase each other through the fields and the trees. This morning I took the kids both to the creche and had a long beautiful walk, to say goodby…
how i will miss this mountain
Early this morning when I opened the shutters.Last night having dinner with our friend from Sanglier Lodge. Drinking straight out of one of the many wells around. Waiting for the baker who comes to the square every morning. Party dressing up! The best playground ever – talking about the view. The village during…
old patterns
Living in full force nature, far from shops, traffic and advertisements felt like one big relief. “We escaped!” And our first months here have been a celebration of that feeling. But over the last weeks, the stress of modern life has found us once again. T has found himself in some complex stress situation with the…
anaïs nin
The famous French writer, Anais Nin, named the experience that so many women I know are having right now: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
A mothers Ambition
Just read this spot on article by Yael Chatav Schonbrun about adjusting your ambitions when you become a mother. Thank you Yael! This story is included with an NYT Opinion subscription. Learn more » If I’m lucky, I might have as long as two hours to work. I riffle through the stack of research articles on substance use,…
Pollyanna
With my attempt to find as many things as possbile to be thankful about in life, I am being a “Pollyanna“! This is a children’s novel published in 1913 by Eleanor H. Porter about a little girl who makes a game of finding ‘something to be glad about’ in everything negative she encounters in her life….
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