A way of life
This morning I started the day of writing more than six A4 pages straight. I simply couldn't stop writing. Then I realized that today is the 19th of January, and I just wanted to scream out loud: "Martin Luther King… I have a dream too!" There is this vision in my head of a world where EVERYONE feels More +
Born in 1975 in a rural area in the South of the Netherland I had the joy of having a "country-side" youth. I learned that if a sheep gets 3 lambs it will only feed 2 and the other one will be left to die unless someone else takes action. Already then I understood that the world can be cruel...Yet if the More +
I fell in love with this word but really: What is it? To clasp or hold close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection: a hug To surround or enclose To include or contain as part of something broader To adopt or support willingly or eagerly To avail oneself of Eager More +
Browsing my way through sites on Minimalism, Simplifying and Mindfulness. Yet I haven’t quite found what I am looking for. None of the above concepts fully embrace me. I am a so called "Maximizer" (Gallup strength finder) What is the opposite of minimalist? Traditionalist (mmm odd?) Maximalist More +
If I want to make the "Embrace" concept a life philosophy perhaps I should first find out what a life philosophy actually is...So I am looking for more information and I found the blog from Marco Laberge from Ottawa, Canada. He seems to have similar questions as he posted the article A Lifestyle or a Life More +
So I want to start a blog, but where do I start? Clearly I have zero experience in how to actually do this. So I need to understand a lot more about blogging if I really want to pull this off. Starting with the big questions; What am I going to blog about? Who am I writing for? What do I want to say? More +
An inspirational email from a colleague triggered me to loop her into “my journey”. I told her about my plans to start a blog for people who want to make their world a bit better & brighter. I'd like everyone to give more compliments and the day more smiles. To truly enjoy the things they care for and More +
I really like to be challenged. Yet I do not at all like to be lectured. I want to walk shoulder to shoulder. Partners not teachers…Yet how do you get these kind of things across without sounding like a teacher yourself? In German there is this word “Zwickmühle” a catch-22 situation. I love it when I More +
This day I made a bold move and wrote up my personal story of the past few months. It wasn’t much more than an A4 but I actually send it off and made someone speechless :-) More +
On Sunday evening things got a little quieter - only my mom, dad and aunt & uncle were still around. My dad made clear that only horses eat standing. So eating at the Christmas market was not an option. We ended up at a brew house for dinner. The waiter wasn’t exactly good cheer that evening and halfway More +