>Yesterday as I was hunting in bookstores I found this amazing photograph:Floating stones.I was moved and very impressed with this photograph.At home I looked it up on the Internet and I saw many more amazing photographs of this artist: Martin Hill. I asked him if I could use his photo for my weblog and he…

>Everyone who knows me knows my dog Britta, the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel that has shared my life since October 1993.She is an old ladydog now, she is getting stiff and her pace is very slow. Since she is deaf and blind sniffing and smelling is her biggest thrill. Our daily walk to Saskia’s petpalace(where…

>Isn’t the universe a most wondrous place? Look at this. It could be a rose, an anemone, or another flower but it is The Cat’s Eye. This Hubble telescope image shows one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen, NGC 6543, nicknamed the “Cat’s Eye Nebula.” Hubble reveals surprisingly intricate structures including concentric gas…

>I am not feeling too great today. Got sick in the middle of the night and woke up with a sore throat,and I have a headache.I have been looking for courage, where can I find that?I found it here on Words of Wisdom by Daisaku Ikeda, the president of SGI, a beautiful site with encouraging…

> One of my favorite Dutch books is Joe Speedboot, written by Tommy Wieringa. As I have made too many reviews in a long gone past I found this one on the Internet: Joe Speedboat (Joe Speedboot) Phenomenally imaginative With his wheelchair-bound spastic narrator, Fransje Hermans, who can only speak in unintelligible grunts, Tommy Wieringa…

>I hope you love to laugh too. I do and so does my dear Rati.

> True Love True love should be transformative, a process that amplifies our capacity to cherish not just one person but all people. It can make us stronger, lift us higher and deepen us as individuals. Yet, in the end, we can only partner with those befitting ourselves. The same is true of friendship. Only…

> photo taken in my backyard facing west She calls me up:‘Did you see the sky? I just told my boss, my girlfriend must be out taking pictures.’ Girlfriend had been staring at a screensaw nothingbut did now I amgratefulforthe world’s beauty.

>Daisaku Ikeda: Ultimately, we are responsible for our own destiny. It may seem to us that our fate is predetermined, whether by our genes or by our environment. What really matters, however, is how we can improve ourselves from this moment forward, how we can change the circumstances that we find ourselves in. This enormous…

>We were all snowcrazed yesterday. It hardly ever snows here so when it snows for more than five minutes we are hysterical.So I took pix and so did a lot of Dutchies yesterday. My dear friend Dr L.Decline sent me the photo of the canal near her house, the Looiersgracht in the beautiful Jordaan. But…