There is a lot of passion, idea’s and love in the alternative ways of living. The projects that the people built and I’ve seen them, are mind-blowing. But I feel there is one thing repeating and repeating, the more I learn about myself and visiting this places. As a social worker I see communities, families, …
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Merope and family
3-10 23:59 Together with Freddy I listened to the 3rd Gnostic teaching. A insect buzzers through the room. It lands on my bed and I hear the silence again. I feel my feet and go slowly up towards my head. Merope.. A place where I discover that I have to heal. Heal from being on …
Am I gonna get there before winter? A one month dairy
12-09-2018He checks one more time if I am all right, the Serbian man that gave me a ride from Belgrade to Novi Sad together with his wife. Invited to their house, eating their food and sleeping in their son’s bed I feel grateful. I take a warm shower and fall asleep, watching a movie. He …
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‘Exemption from obligatory schooling’
Watching the series ‘Exemption from obligatory schooling’, I see how Teun, presentator of the Dutch program cannot understand that a ‘smart’ child can get exemption from school for the rest of it’s life. A mother explains to Teun that her sun even bounces when he sees a school book. He was bullied out of school …
Summer in Balkans – Zomer in de Balkans
I think about Grandma when I take a break, here at the blue water of a river in Macedonian Greece. She always talked about her far journey’s while she read her magazine ‘ Royals’ and felt asleep with the only sound remaining – the ticking clock. A feeling of love streams through me when I …