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small beauties

April 2, 2009 – 7:59 pm

A friend today told me that the experience to see Michael Jackson to sing his part in "We Are the World, We Are the Children" live on stage is a historical moment that has the power to bring tears to thousands of eyes. I laughed. Yet inside me I believed him. Live music, legends, crowds. This makes people go to emotions. And then cry or laugh, start killing or having sex and all the rest. As far as I remember from summer festival experiences. Living green is nice. My bicycle's front gear shift broke down today. It cost 4 euros to fix ...

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silence of blogs

March 6, 2009 – 9:18 pm

When a blog falls silent for a longer period, people start to wonder. When I told Anna what was going on in my life, she reacted by telling me: 'So no wonder the blog was down.' Nothing much was going on. Everything was going on. Depends on how you look at it. I had two wonderful and confronting experiences in personal development trainings I do with the Synergy guys. One insight I got out of them was that theory and practice are not always one. I may know a philosophy in theory and yet not apply it in practice. A possible next step: see and do ...

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commitment & curiosity

March 4, 2009 – 11:12 pm

His name is Sam Hsieh. He commits himself to simple things and follows them through. Like punching a time clock for one year, every single hour of every single day, recording each second on a photograph. Scrap previous concepts of time. Or sealing himself in a cell for one year, without doing any reading, writing or consuming any media. Scrap previous concepts of space. S T A T E M E N T I am the producer of my own life. I write the statemens, make the posters, record the mistakes and do the performance. 05 March 2009

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performance

November 7, 2008 – 4:29 am

What does it take to step up to do something you fear? Exclude the outside world, be with yourself, trust your instincts, and do the show. Enjoy it. Follow your senses, see with your eyes, listen with your ears, be connected with the physical reality. Take a deep breath and go. In my life, where jobs, friendships, relationships, family and the environment where I live looks many times like a mess of intentions, emotions and incompletions, I go back to the concept of performance. A performance is complete. It starts and it has an end. It is about me, doing the show, no ...

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Living Space 2.0

October 20, 2008 – 3:55 pm

During my October stay in Holland I made a wonderful friend. This is her flat in the Hague. This post follows up on a previous series of living space photos. Why? Because it's fascinating how personal spaces are full of similarities. They also allow us to look into another person. [gallery=4]

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bird nests and spiderwebs

October 16, 2008 – 5:36 pm

If your life was to be either a birdnest or a spiderweb, which one would you choose? In every moment we choose. Do I know the consequences of my choice? I do not. Can I influence what is going on around me? Definitely yes. Up to a point. Athina was young and Athina was brave. She made up her mind and went up to the guy at the bar. She told him to meet the next day for a coffee. She knew him and liked him, but he seemed to be playing a game that Athina was not aware of. The guy agreed to meet. Next day he ...

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stop, look, correct, take an action

October 4, 2008 – 6:24 pm

I decided to leave my studies in Holland and return to Thessaloniki. How come? Well, I got the feeling that I was following a plan and the plan had become more important than the reality. Do you ever experience this? Well, I could not really see anything beyond this plan... Not even the person I love! Sometimes I wonder what kind of an idiot would do such a thing. But the, to my relief, we all do it.... The moment I decided to leave the Netherlands, there were suddenly opportunities flashing by above my very-educated-head, and I really thought: how come I have not seen ...

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under the effect of a train ride

October 1, 2008 – 7:23 pm

On a daily basis, I have been going south and returning north during the past month. The infamous Zwolle - Nijmegen (Netherlands) train ride has become my daily source of inspiration & boredom. In its purest form, there is a simple pleasure in movement. Spiced with the sight of cows, canals, rivers and the sound of music, I spent about 1500 minutes on this ride (75 minutes one-way). Here is the window-perspective on the experience. [listen & enjoy] [gallery=2]

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why is this blog called 2and2make5?

September 29, 2008 – 2:11 pm

I take it for granted that all human beings are in fact unique. Some have expressed it by speaking up against the straight line. Others do all sorts of weird stuff to feel different. I simply accept that life is illogical. This is expressed in the equation 2 + 2 = 5. It's a sort of belief. It makes me feel good. In addition, there's a Radiohead song with the same title. I would not go into connecting lyrics with anything much, this has already been done by other fans. I like Radiohead sometimes. Most of the times the depress me, so I turn to pop. I find pop good for ...

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going away for a comeback

September 26, 2008 – 7:57 pm

[rhythms for reading [-] listen & enjoy] Today I heard another inspiring human story.The protagonist is a married young man. One day, however, he finds himself a divorced young man. Time passes and he is not sure whether he should commit himself to a new relationship. He wants to take time for himself. So he makes a plan, packs his bags, and goes away.* He makes a long journey around the world by bicycle. He sets off on his journey alone, but often ends up travelling in company. He follows the course of rivers as he heads towards the Middle-East. Let's say ...

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