Light, Life, Segantini and other things So after two years of being very careful and taking all precautions we got contaminated by The Virus. We were unwell for a week, a bit of fever, a cough, headache, discomfort. We were vaccinated, and if we wouldn’t have been we would probably be dead. This is difficult…

“aha, we’re witnessing a homicide”. Who is the victim, who is the perpetrator and who is the accomplice? What is the motif? Where and when did it take place?

My last post was about the lovely Ahr valley and the surrounding Eifel mountain range. Perhaps you can have a look at the pictures I took there. Then came torrential rains, floods, total destruction. I haven’t been back there but here is a collection of photo’s from the internet that may give you an impression.…

Nowadays everything has to have a STORY. We want to know the STORY. Here in Holland it’s madness, everything has to be a story, een verhaal, and nota bene, has to BE, not HAVE. It is part of a regression into a worldview based on myth. The term postmodern is not very precise, better would…

CLICK HERE TO GO DIRECTLY TO THE SLIDESHOW IF YOU PREFER TO READ THE TEXT SOME OTHER TIME 😊 “Dr. Livingstone I presume?”, words uttered by Henry Stanley (1841 – 1904) when he met David Livingstone (1813 – 1873) in 1871 somewhere in “dark” Africa. Livingstone was a missionary and explorer, who after a long…

You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo…

Corona reached the Netherlands by the end of February. In the very beginning we weren’t scared, somehow we thought it wouldn’t be like China or Italy. Government said: “don’t shake hands. wash them”. We saw an exhibition in Nunspeet on the 3d of march, another one in The Hage on the 5th and went for…

From our window, towards the south-west, we see the city of Zandvoort, in the distance behind the dunes. The whole scene can be very charming, with amazing sunsets, low hanging mist between ranges of dunes, and on clear days there is the sea behind the skyline. But with torrential rains and storm the whole world…

The post I created with the skyline of Zandvoort as seen from my window leaves much unsaid. At Zandvoort itself there is the beach, which is particularly beautiful some five kilomaters to the North, at Bloemendaal aan zee, or better even Parnassia. During ebb, the beach is wide and depending on the wind and period…