Chaos

This week­end we moved home, from Amers­foort (NL) to Gilling­ham (UK). Mov­ing house always brings out the truth that the cos­mos tends to fall into chaos. Pack­ing results in a mess of box­es and things, not just in the house but also in my head. Dur­ing the last week, I almost missed the train three …

In the midst of the innumerable stars

At the risk of bor­ing the read­er, I’m writ­ing again about Ivan the cat. There are things that Ivan and I share. Many of our bio­log­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics are the same. Accord­ing to the Dalai Lama, we both seek peace, com­fort and secu­ri­ty. Togeth­er, we devel­oped our habits and pat­terns, and there is def­i­nite­ly some communication …

The cow and the planet

After a rea­son­ably warm day I’m in the train, enjoy­ing the farm­land between Ede and Amers­foort. The orange evening sun slow­ly sinks towards the hori­zon. In the sky I see a lot of air bal­loons float­ing by. It must be nice to lit­er­al­ly tran­scent the every­day hus­tle and see your every­day envi­ron­ment from a different …

Spreading panic

Fred­dy will return to Kenya in a while, to con­tin­ue his research. While plan­ning this, we found out that there is a lot of unrest in the coun­try. The day before yes­ter­day there was a bomb attack on a mar­ket in Nairo­bi. In Sep­tem­ber last year, there was the attack on the West­gate Mall that …

Guardians of being

In March we set­tled in Amers­foort, to spend a cou­ple of months in The Nether­lands. April was ded­i­cat­ed to the wed­ding of my sis­ter Eline and brand new broth­­er-in-law Simon. We even went to Israel for this. At home I spend my time star­ing at either the lap­top or the tele­vi­sion — depend­ing on my …