shopping

Yesterday we went down the valley to get some shopping done. Something we are not really fond of and so we don’t go often. Coming home we realized how different ‘shopping’ actually has become now! This is what we bought: An axe. The old fashionable one broke after three times ! A christmas tree! A fridge….

nothing

Yesterday someone asked me what I was up to. And I said ‘nothing’. ‘I am doing nothing’, and I smiled an apologizing smile. Later on my way home I thought how I came up with that insane answer. I may do ‘nothing much’ in the light of our economy and in status driven eyes. But…

all the same

How come we all live life in the same way? We all live in a house, sleep in a bed with our partner, the kids in a different room. Have three meals with almost the same kind of food. We have a telephone, a computer, a laptop, a bike, a car, carry a bag with…

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…

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…

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.”