Sparkles Expressed
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In this space I write about essence and how it expresses itself - in work, parenting, education, relationships - throughout everything in our daily life.
Daar ging ze. Vastberaden de dood tegemoet, met een vreugde en kracht die ik niet eerder in haar leven had gezien.
Mijn moeder (78) koos afgelopen vrijdag voor euthanasie. Nog geen 4 maanden geleden kreeg ze te horen dat ze een tumor van 15cm in haar buik had. De twee chemokuren voor...
Zie je deze stenen? Daar speelde ik vroeger veelvuldig als kind, bij de Hunebedden vlak achter mijn ouderlijk huis in Drenthe. Ik had geen idee dat het een krachtplek was, één van de oudste graven. Ik zat er gewoon omdat het fijn voelde. Pas een paar weken geleden toen ik deze plek...
The other day I was in Athens. The taxi driver who picked me up from the airport told me of how the Greek are told an important ‘truth’ from childhood, which is: Turkey is the enemy. It made me think: what if our parents told us a different story? Then what would happen?
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In personal development and spiritual teachings the word ‘potential’ is very often used. But what is it exactly and what happens when we allow it to unlock and unfold?
In essence, we are all potential. This life force energy ‘we’ are all made of and which flows...
Today we cried, both of us. Of despair, hope, love, (dis)connection and (mis)understandings. All together..
If there is one thing I could say about a conscious relationship is that it takes courage, commitment, honesty and transparency to go beyond, over and over again, to make it work....
Years ago I met this nice guy, Marco Bot, during a Shamanic training. He was always drawing, even during the training. Symbols, signs, images; it was like he was a fountain of inspiration that needed to be expressed through his sketch pad. I was reminded of him while I was in the process of...
It is not often that I am truly touched by a business, but it happened. On a grey evening I came across a Dutch documentary on television about Lightyear One, the first solar powered family car. I called my son of 12 to come and watch it with me, because I know this kind of stuff has his...
In March this year we chose a secondary school for my son. He wanted to go to the same school as his big sister is in. She is nearly in her last year and we are satisfied with the school. They really try hard to offer subjects in an appealing way, but the curriculum is leading and the educational...
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