>.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Regenboog over Maasplein, originally uploaded by Dia Positive. This is one of the reasons why I love to live in Amsterdam and in the Low Lands.The light on this photo is so Dutch in…

>So yesterday I decided that I wanted more Ichinen. That was one of my wishes for next year. Another one of my wishes was to sleep better as I have not slept very well for the last years. Mrs K, who is one of the pioneers in the Netherlands, said that she had also suffered…

>ichinen (Jpn)[一念] (Chin.: i-nien) * A single moment of life, one instant of thought, or the mind or life at a single moment. Also, life-moment, thought-moment, or simply a single moment or instant. Ichinen has various meanings in Buddhism: (1) A moment, or an extremely short period comparable to the Sanskrit term kshana. The Treatise…

> Melanie made a Christmas Album called: ‘ Antlers’ which was later named: Yes, Santa, there is a Melanie. Her version of Silent Night is truly amazing. I am not yet in the Mood for Christmas, am I ever, but this Album gets me into it. In ‘ True Believers’ Melanie wrote: And I kept…

> Sunset in December. Sun has not been shining today. It rained all day. The weather is repeating itself. Like we all do. Don’t we all constantly repeat ourselves? Our thoughts repeat themselves. Same brain, same path. Isn’t it just wonderful when we meet someone who thinks differently than us? Who has thoughts we never…

>.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Shoes under red coat, originally uploaded by Dia Positive. New view

>The Amsterdam School (Dutch: Amsterdamse School) is a style of architecture that arose in the early part of the 20th Century in The Netherlands.(copied from Wikipedia) Imbued with socialist ideals, it was applied to all manner of buildings, including homes and apartment blocks, and was partly a reaction to what was considered “bourgeois” neo-gothic and…

>.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Detail in Jekerstraat, originally uploaded by Dia Positive. This is another fine example of Amsterdamse School, red bricks and an ornament of concrete. The architects wanted people to feel like kings and queens. After…

> These four doors are a fine example of ‘De Amsterdamse School’, a twentieth century Dutch way of building that has a connection with Jugendstill and Art Deco, de Stijl, The New Building (Het Nieuwe Bouwen) and The Chicago School. Amsterdamse School are mainly houses in appartment blocks and schools. The South of Amsterdam was…

>This was Amsterdam sky yesterday, photo’s by Anthony StoneMore of Anthony’s sky. Awesome!