blog about alternative, green, slow living & poetry
If the COVID-19 crisis hadn't started one year ago, we wouldn’t have discovered how fragile our systems, such as economy, healthcare, food and livelihood, are. Also, in my case, I wouldn't have recognized how life on the countryside is the best what happened to me. In fact, I have become very grateful to live on [...]
Ever doubt your goals or what you strongly believe in, works or is actually true? We are evolving beings and ideas we had before can change over time. Because we have accumulated more knowledge and experience or our priorities in life have simply shifted. I love the tiny house lifestyle: to live on a small [...]
Ik wilde hier wat over schrijven en greep die dag terug naar wat ik hier vorig jaar over schreef. De feiten zijn nog altijd aan de orde van de dag, en daarom besloot ik het nog eens te posten, ingekort, met nieuwe informatie. Totdat ineens een kop verse, zwarte koffie over mijn schrijftafeltje viel, waar [...]
I just finished a book called “Belonging” by Toko-pa Turner. The title of the book spoke to me, as the theme belonging is beautiful, tricky and so universal. As humans, we all want to belong. Belong to a group, culture, a partner, place, a home. Messy The title spoke to me, because the past two [...]
In de strijd tegen het virus, Covid-19, zijn er volop discussies gaande over de noodzaak van het laten vaccineren, terwijl overheden nauwelijks, of zeg maar gerust niet, spreken over het belang van een gezonde levensstijl ter bevordering van de algemene gezondheid. Campagnes daarover moet ik nog altijd zien. Nergens een geluid over gezonde voeding. Goed [...]
Warning: this blogpost will be a shit story! It was seven years ago, when I first saw an eco-toilet. On Ibiza. This toilet didn’t use any water to flush the poop away to a place unknown. Instead, it stayed there, in a deep hole and we used sawdust to “flush”. The poop, toilet-paper and sawdust [...]
A few weeks ago I had the honour of being interviewed for a new Dutch blog about eco warriors, adventurers and free spirits. Seven years ago I met Marlot, founder of the blog, in Casita Verde, an ecological community, on Ibiza. Dorus and I were living here for two months and Marlot used to live [...]
As David Attenborough said in his latest nature documentary A Life on Our Planet: “WE MUST RE-WILD OUR WORLD”. Watching his witness statement of today’s natural world, Attenborough demonstrates the planet’s wilderness and biodiversity are rapidly declining, and it’s shocking proof.
Only a couple of hours and 2020 is over! It has been a year with many, unprecedented challenges. Probably for everyone who reads this. Yet, I have seen beauty amidst the misery; misery that I encountered in the articles I read and the images I saw and the conspiracies people flung into the world. Sadness [...]
Grenzen aangeven, behoeften benoemen en ongenoegens uiten, je mag dan wel een communicatief vaardig persoon zijn, makkelijk is anders. Of het nu om een vriendschap, werk- of liefdesrelatie gaat, om het gezond en in balans te houden, moeten er wel eens dingen gezegd worden, die soms moeilijk zijn. En vooral ook tijdig, het opkroppen totdat [...]
