> Lido (left) Stel (right) and me in the middle. We met in the Amsterdam of the Seventies and stayed close friends for all these year.

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> Life loses its dynamism from the moment we lose the passion with which to live it. No matter what our age, we cannot afford to let the flame within our heart grow dim. We do not become unhappy because we grow old. We become unhappy only when we grow ever more unwilling to change…

>I have been so quiet I can’t believe it. Anything wrong with me? Don’t remember. My past is my past and can’t be changed so I hardly ever think about what happened yesterday. But what happened yesterday is that I had a very intense weekend doing my keibi services in the Cultural Centre in Zeist.A…

> Where can we find happiness? Happiness is not found in a tranquil life free of storms and tempests. Real happiness is found in the struggles we undergo to realize our goals, in our efforts to move forward.

> This wonderful, beautiful, gorgeous, sweet smelling rose grew in my backyard.Every year the miraculous lush magnificence amazes me. Thanks, Mother Earth.

>”What kind of future do I envision for myself? What kind of self am I trying to develop? What do I want to accomplish in my life?” The thing is to paint this vision of your life in your heart as specifically as possible. That “painting” itself becomes the design of your future. The power…

> This is my cat Midas aka Mickey, he is a red Persian but he is mixed. His mother was a Queen but his dad a regular streetcat. For the first two years of his life he lived with a human mother and daughter, the mother had a Siamese and the daughter had Midas.The Siamese…

> This is the land of my father. My forefathers and mothers grew here on this grand vast land where the clouds float by in the sky. I have my feet on the sandof this GrunningerlandAnd think ofLammert HuizengaEttje VegterKoert Huizinga, my father. I see what they sawand I am taken back in time.

>This is my tree. According to the Celts. It is an ash and people that are born around end of May or end of November (like my mother too) are ambitious.There is more but it is late…..