>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…

>The table after an hour of heavy snowfall. My white rodondendron waiting for Spring+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++As it has started raining these are probably the last pictures of Dutch snow I took this year.It was beautiful for as long as it lasted.Till next year…… PS It started snowing again………………

> Isn’t this just awesome?The snow is falling in my garden in the city, covering my plum tree and taxus, my holly and bamboo, my Japanese cherry and my ivy, my pear tree, the new crocusses and my daffodils.

> They predicted snow but I was an unbeliever. What I saw on the Internet was that it was going to rain, precipitation they said so I was laughing at every one who claimed: ‘Tomorrow they advice us not to go out’, Hahaha I said, softie. But I know one thing, when ever I do…