> Had a wonderful time with my two friends from New York. We met 28 years ago at the Women’s festival 1979 in De Melkweg. My girlfriend and I were the ‘janitors’- the guardesses we called ourselves at the old prison where the guests and artists of the Festival stayed.When the festival was over we…

>President Ikeda from SGI: Human life is indeed wondrous. You may be ill physically, but as long as your mental state is strong, it most certainly will exert a positive influence on your body. There may be no better remedy than hope.

> Another one of America’s great artists. Don’t know much about her life. I saw her paintings and was deeply impressed and moved. This night I found her on the Internet. I see her walk, I see where she painted. I am so grateful. Now I am going to find out who she was.

>In 1980 I made my first trip to the USA as a grown up. New York New York was my first stop, I planned on travelling all over the US for three months but never left Manhatten….. I stayed with my dear friend Pamela Camhe (who happens to be here right now) in Camp Canal…

>AMSTERDAM: French women, says a recent bestseller, don’t get fat. Japanese women, says another, don’t get old or fat. But their sisters in the Netherlands may have one up on both of them. That is because Dutch women, according to a book just released in the Netherlands, don’t get depressed. After scores of interviews with…

> I prefer AmsterdamIt’s more beautiful than ParisI prefer AmsterdamMy Mokum paradise Amsterdam hiphoppers THC Mokum is the word we Amsterdammers use for Amsterdam, it is a Jewish word coming from the Hebrew Makum which means Home.

> TwinsNew roses on my plant and two more to come. It’s a beautiful warm and sunny day here in Amsterdam. One of those days we wished we had in July, when it was summer and the outdoor swimmingpools still open and we could lay in the grass.Last Thursday when Stel and Lido were here…

> 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…