It just hit me earlier, out of the blue, out of nowhere… I was preparing lunch and my mind wandered off thinking about my friends and my mother. She had a stroke and it’s bothering me. She recovered well enough to send me a letter; I received it last week, she sounds very confused and didn’t finish some sentences. Perhaps I feel homesick because I’ve only been working lately, trying to finish a never ending project, my portfolio and website. Or maybe because I had a slice of rye crisp bread with peanut butter [Teso’s which is not as nice as Calvé]. I don’t know what caused it but I’m happy that we didn’t move to New Zealand or Australia in the end. If this gets worse I can at least book a plane and be in Amsterdam in an hour…
Craving
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Quest
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ~Immanuel Kant
I’ve been exchanging emails with JdB. again lately, she’s my personal guide at times. Whenever I have issues she will be right there to send me the truth in a mail, in five words… amazing. She makes me realise certain things, things that I need to change, improve or simply digest. Whenever I feel bad, she can lift my spirit in seconds. I’ve never met anyone like her before, an old soul with great wisdom.
She’s an initiated Lama, through studying the wisdom of Buddhism in Tibet for years. A hermit like myself who tend to avoid certain aspects of city life.
She painted this amazing picture for me, and told me she would bring it to CH. today so she could send it off to me. I’m so eager to see it, it is never the same in reality as it is in a photo. She called it: ‘Inner journey through the shadows’. I’ve seen her paintings in her house; they are breath taking! This Sunday I will go on a quest, in search of a huge old wooden frame which will be the finishing touch. I can’t wait to hang it on the wall…