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MOODS and WORDS #4
I woke up this morning like many mornings lately With a heart that goes out to you A heart that misses you, and wants to be at multiple places at once with you Around the purple flowers in the garden, and the rose buds in the morning sunshine The bleating of sheep in the country […]
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Spuw vuur en vlam.
Niets universeels dan de kracht van een aangestoken vuur Het staren in de hypnotiserende vlammen Met z’n allen rondom een vuurtje in de koude avondlucht De uren razen voorbij, maar de tijd lijkt stil te staan Het gezoem van de wereld op verre afstand Niets dan de dansende vlammen De eenvoud daarvan, het magische
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7 Tips to be more Resilient, Self-Sustainable and Free People.
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 […]
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(Eco) Confessions.
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 […]
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8 maart was het Internationale Vrouwendag {Dutch}.
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 […]
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Belonging as a Wild Woman.
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 […]
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Toilet Dreams and Nightmares.
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 […]
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An eco warrior interview by Marlot Cathalina.
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 […]
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6 Ways to Rewild Yourself Now.
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.