It is full moon today. All my crystals and stones are out in the garden to charge in the moonlight. I’ve been meditating and taking a bath with rosemary and quartz. At the full moon we can release. This moon cycle’s theme is : What am I for? There is so much to be ‘against’ right…

“Life’s a river. You can try and swim against it and you will get exhausted and stuck in the same place forever. If you let yourself be carried away by the stream you will hurt yourself and have no say in what happens. So learn to swim with the current, use its strength and power…

“I wish to know an entire heaven and an entire earth,” Henry David Thoreau wrote in 1856. One of the first things I had to get used to (or better: one of the first fears I had to conquer) in France was the dark. It gets dark here. Not a little dark, pitch dark. A…

It’s summer. I’m in the same dress every single day. Eating as much oysters and moules frites as I can. Having wine for lunch. Reading during the day and finishing my book when the sun sets. I guess I won’t be blogging much these coming weeks. But at least you’ll know what I’m up to…

When my father turned sixty he told me that the weird thing with getting older is that he mentally always stayed 30. I don’t know yet how this is for me. But when I saw these pictures the other day I was confronted with the fact that somewhere in the last year I became a…

Midsummer night with a strawberry full moon. The cosmos is blessing all of us!

“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know,…