I did not post a blog at Easter, because we have been away for a few days. The first photo from the gallery below gives a hint as to what it was that we were running from: the dust and debris of our house. Our landlord has finally joined the march of civilization and has …
Thinking about eating
At high school we had a course called ‘Caring’ (Verzorging). One of the few things that I still remember from that, is a movie with a woman who was jumping rope and singing: “Know what you eat, kno-o-ow what you ea-eat!” (This was in Dutch, where the words ‘know’ and ‘eat’ actually rhyme) After this …
It has not gone unnoticed
I recently watched a few episodes of a Dutch television program called The Hokjesman, translating to the Boxes Man. Different groups of Dutch people are mildly ironically scrutinized in the program, and it always turns out that the box is much more colourful than you’d expect. In the episode about ‘Animal Friends’ the Hokjesman visited …
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 …