It’s a rainy day. It’s a sad day, I’m sad today. It has been almost a year since we moved our base back to Amsterdam. “Let’s do it ‘right’ just here, before we expand again” my husband said. I thought it was a wise thing to say. Every time I give a lecture people ask…
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love this
There is something magical about this picture, I cannot keep my eyes of of it. I feel like I belong there, it was my time and place. This is Rainer Maria Rilke, Rose Beuret (Rodin’s wife) and Auguste Rodin and two of their dogs around 1902/1903 in France. I also found a letter from Rilke to…
mestival tonight
Posting is not in my daily routine and I always forget to mention if I’m speaking somewhere. So better late than never: tonight I’m giving two workshops at the Mestival in De Rode Hoed in Amsterdam. I think there are still tickets, or you can send me a message and I’ll see if I can sneak…
perfectly broken
My parents got divorced when I was 13 years old. This had a huge impact on me, but I never took this too serious. So many of the people I know got divorced parents or themselves are separated from the father/mother of their child . So why put salt in the wounds by whining about it? Lately I…
your own life
Why would you want to keep your life simple? I never thought of simplicity as something I would want in my life. I wanted excitement, I want adventure, experience, complexity, fun, challenge. Looking for those things I took risks, I travelled, I sought freedom, I sought independence. I had a clear picture of the life…
beauty
The great photographers of life must have some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. And isn’t this the secret of it all? Nurturing what already exists inside of you without any judgement? I woke up gloomy at 5 AM after a couple of…
french happiness
A surprise was waiting when I came back from France on friday ; my essay about imperfect love has been translated and published into the French Happinez. Apres l’infidelité… Read it here in Dutch.
I am doing it!
Yes I am doing it! I cannot believe it! It took me years to come to this point. I went all around the world, the physical and the spiritual one, up and down in myself, through impossibly happy and impossibly sad times, through panic and fear and solitude to collect the experience, vision, understanding and…
your soul
If your life is not going the way you want. If thing are difficult, hard, uneasy. Put your soul first. Put it in front of anything else, make it your top priority. Remember how you felt after that holiday, hike, great conversation, amazing sex, sublime concert. Remember how it feels when your soul is happy…