donderdag 31 augustus 2023 op 09:14Er zijn van die dagen dat ik het leven zo mooi vind.Dat ik opsta en Ja denk. Ik ormarm het. .. Vandaag is zo een dag. Ook al is het de laatste dag van de zomermaand augustus, begint morgen de herfstmaand en regent het. Misschien komt het omdat even de…

‘Onze stad die echt van ons was’ Op het moment dat er begonnen werd met zwemmen speciaal voor homo’s en lesbiennes werd Dia Huizinga lid van de zwemvereniging die nu Gay Swim Amsterdam is. Ze kon nog niet goed zwemmen, maar wilde per se deelnemen aan de Gay Games als die in Amsterdam gehouden werden.…

Is this an addition or not? It’s not clear to me. Last Saturday was one of the best days of 2023. The best day was LoveSwim, the annual swimming party in the Amstel, but this day August 5 a close second. The Canal Parade. Dutch people often say the kennel parade but in English, the…

Did it all really happen someone asked me. This weekend I followed a Buddhist course in Zeist. Several people spoke to me about the status updates I do on Facebook, which included a short piece about my relationship with Amit, they thought it was nicely written. Also, someone who hadn’t read the pieces asked me…

The morning after we met, I went to class, and Amit went back to the student room on the Prinsengracht. I finished earlier than usual and cycled towards Prinsengracht, I rang the doorbell, and she opened the door. She was surprised and happy to see me and invited me in. She made breakfast with coffee…

We continued our way towards La Plage. It was as if we were driving behind a village with a large and quiet lake on our left. The paved road turned into a dirt road and ended up as a sandy parking lot full of cars. At the end of the site, we found a place…

The late summer with Amit. That late summer we went on holiday to the South of France. We traveled with the blue Volkswagen van that Amit and her two friends used to travel in. It had large windows in the back that we could close with batiked rags. In the back was a large bed…

Met Amit in mijn leven begon een geweldig avontuur. Amit leek nergens bang voor. Ze was een echte Sabra. Ik ben negen jaar na het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog geboren en ik realiseer me steeds meer hoe de schaduw van die oorlog nog steeds over Nederland hing. De Tweede Wereld oorlog was in mijn…

Meeting Amit 1977. With Amit in my life an amazing adventure began. Amit didn’t seem afraid of anything. She was a real Sabra. I was born nine years after the end of the Second World War and I realize more how the shadow of that war still hung over the Netherlands. The Second World War…

The career choice test I’m eighteen years old and I don’t know what I want. I don’t know what I want to do with my life. I don’t know if I want to go to college. I don’t know what I want to study. I don’t know how I want to shape my life. I…