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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
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 ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
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 ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
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, ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
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 ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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.
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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 ...
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
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 ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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, ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
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 ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
[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 ...
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