Merry Christmas and a Joyous 2015!

There is a charity I support every year: Music For Life.

You may choose a song here and then choose how much to pay for it and which charity may benefit. There are more than 800.

Or buy this song on iTunes itunes.apple.com/be/album/happy-together

­-single/id946169029?uo=4 to support Poco A Poco.

"Horror Vacui"

As described by Tom Lanoye in Heldere Nachten

Wirklichkeit - When Reality Suddenly Sets In

and everyday life gets transformed.

Hmmmmhhhhh?!

Vanwege "Tuin"

Though I can perfectly well tell the advantages of owning a smartphone or a mobile, I belief I will refrain from doing so a little bit longer.

The main reason is that knowing myself far too well I fear I will get addicted to this constant possibility of communication. Apart from walking like a zombie, it would also stop me from living my life, living the present. I would not hear the word "tuin" when passing some people in Chichester. I would not realise that they are Dutch tourists looking for the entrance to the beautiful Bishop's Garden. An entrance rather hard to find because one has to step through a gate that does not look like a passage at all. I would not turn to them and give them direction. We would have missed so much of the present...

Pride, Despair and Affection

It's like watching a big train crash in slow motion.

Pride, if the most dangerous person you can be with is yourself. Thus the worst of all the deadly sins.

The only remedy:

Manchmal - Sometimes

Manchmal ist es einfach die Weise, wie sich zwei Linien kreuzen, rein zufällig, für immer eingeschrieben, von Ewigkeiten her gedacht, unseres Erkennens harrend.

Sometimes it's just the way two lines cross each other, accidentally, forever engraved, predicted from the beginning, just awaiting our recognition.