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creating positive energy

September 25, 2008 – 5:27 pm

The following photo observation is here to inspire everyone to find comfort in the beauty of small exchanges (in this case of money and goods). This protagonist is my Mum, whom I love very much. You can follow her in one of her ventures into the daily process of transaction, giving presents and the related joy. The location is Graz, Austria, Museum of Modern Art. The location is interior (it was raining outside). Date: 14 September, 2008, late afternoon. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 time flies!

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my friends and communication styles

September 7, 2008 – 7:09 pm

This is the feeling I get daily. [youtube YsAQ92dGa2g]

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a culture of questioning

September 5, 2008 – 4:47 pm

[audio:05 Bringin it.mp3|autostart=yes|loader=0x3399CC|slider=0xFFFFFF|rightbg=0x99CC66] I am readily willing to follow all the rules that exist for the community where I live, wherever that community may be. In this sense, I'm a communist and a collectivist. Some Dutch friends have been making fun of their own culture of making rules even for how to apply the rules. Following the rules is within your own responsibility. Asking questions as well. My schedule is full of questions. [-] What keeps Dutch people on the trains from looking at each other with natural curiosity? I spend an average of 12 hours per week on trains these days... This is my current ...

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tiny acts of beauty

August 30, 2008 – 6:17 pm

I have moved to Holland. I am here now, squatting in a friends house, with my life in bags, my anticipation for the next days very positive. The following tiny acts of beauty have inspired me the past days, I will put them in no particular order. a present from a very close friend out of pure and simple care (thank you for the wallet Cate!) a train ride from Nijmegen to Arnhem, clear blue sky and sunshine, spotting that people are laying under the sun under umbrellas a good friend telling me how he's happy to continue working together (Michael, I am really ...

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what is my next step?

August 21, 2008 – 2:36 pm

I spent the night of my 29th birthday on a Dutch train, then at Amsterdam airport. Inspired by my experience of working in the training in the Olde Vechte foundation, I wrote the following in my logbook.* *My logbook is a constant reminder of my work of navigating a summer camp during July. Eventually I have navigated to unknown waters. There's only the moment of here and now. Being is in this moment. On this moment I can take an action, and then look at the result of this action. To see and look on this next moment needs patience and focusing ...

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life space

June 13, 2008 – 9:15 am

Life space in the sense of where people spend most of the time of each day. The space in which you return to consciousness from sleep, where you rehearse the social self again, before going out into the world of others.

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a man with a dream

June 11, 2008 – 6:24 pm

I like to believe that we all have people that inspire us. The story I want to tell is about someone who has inspired me to believe in my dreams. Looking at him, I am convinced that if you really find passion for what you do, you can always find your place inside it.His name is Roundos and he lives in small mountain village. By looking him in the eyes, you find warmth. Being a male, middle-aged, single Greek, he holds three jobs at the same time. Everybody knows him and he knows everybody. Two and a half years ago ...

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between a diploma and a hard place

June 10, 2008 – 3:37 am

Last week the long winding path of the Here2Stay project came to a closing stage. The result of my latest exploration is an insight into why and how young Greek university students think about the concepts of learning and volunteerism. The gut feeling I have is the same I had before: the truth is simply that the Greek family is the most important social actor that, in the mind of the majority of young people, protects and develops the person, while financing his or her formal educational career. The rest of possible social actors (state, civil society, other people) are not ...

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responsibility

May 22, 2008 – 4:06 pm

I am in the middle of a qualitative research. It started as a youth work experiment when we thought young people are going to be enthusiastic about questionnaire-based, quantitative social research as such. We dived into the some of the main issues of contemporary European educational systems, like what is there to balance the deficiencies of these systems, especially their ability to adapt to change? In other words, how to reduce the gap that education as a system often creates between people in terms of opportunities? Already from the start we had the answer: non-formal education. Learning outside of formalized, impersonal, ...

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