Remember remember

There is good news, because since last week I work at the research insti­tute where Fred­dy also works. My con­tract is for three months, with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of exten­sion. So from 9 to 5 I am now a research assis­tant Mon­i­tor­ing & Eval­u­a­tion, where I can indulge my love for Excel and paper house­hold surveys. …

Musical education

I feel a bit like Don­ald Duck, rolling from one job into anoth­er. The shoe store turned out to be a shady was a shad­owy busi­ness, where I did not get a con­tract and was back on the street after three days. For the past few weeks I worked through a recruit­ment agency for a …

Cows ethics

For me, a veg­e­tar­i­an diet is an impor­tant part of striv­ing for non­vi­o­lence. Writ­ing about this puts me in a vul­ner­a­ble posi­tion, because the great major­i­ty of peo­ple do not share this belief, while it is very cen­tral in my life. Veg­e­tar­i­ans can also make the impres­sion of being moral­is­tic; Thieme calls this the ‘accu­sa­tion …

Gandhi and Truth

Today is Mahat­ma Gandhi’s birth­day and con­se­quent­ly the day of non­vi­o­lence. I would like to quote from the intro­duc­tion to Gandhi’s auto­bi­og­ra­phy. In between the text are pic­tures that Fred­dy took when he was climb­ing Mt Kenya in March. … I have giv­en the chap­ters I pro­pose to write the title of The Sto­ry of My …

Shoes

This week I final­ly earned my first Pounds ster­ling. For the time being, that mere fact is more impor­tant to me than the quan­ti­ty of pounds, which is a good thing. I have nego­ti­at­ed com­pet­i­tive­ly about this job, which is why my income is now below the min­i­mum wage. The job is in a shoe …