Once upon a time there was a cat who was looking at the human world with her eyes in amazement. Sitting in the warm sun in front of the door of the house where she lives, she looks at the busy life of the human animals. She sees those human…

Carefully I walk through the vast landscape. In the distance flows a slow wide river, closer to me a number of grazing cows. The heat slows down my step and I decide to lie down in the long cool grass. My thoughts also slow down. There are clouds drifting…

As the time, in an endless rhythm divided by the rhythm of the year, slips past me, mirror my thoughts the many ends of the year into my past. Ends of the year that alternates in joy and sorrow. No year is the same. No year is more beautiful or…

The loneliness that connects me with the wonderful phenomena in nature that surrounds us. In a silence embracing me, I stared to the horizon, where sky and sea meet, and hit me with the forming cloud pattern above the ever-darkening sea. The sun, behind the clouds, let the sea, just…

Once upon a time, there was a bumblebee that flew humming and buzzing from flower to flower. Every flower got a kiss. It was an optimistic bumblebee with a cheerful view of the future. His fellow bumblebees were always greeted cheerfully. He was the friendliest and nicest bumblebee…

Lying on my back in the grass. In the grass under a tree. Through the canopy of that tree, I could just see the blue sky. The sun also shone in between. A light breeze provided a playing shadow over my face from the moving leaves. I felt protected…

While walking through a quiet area, I let my gaze go over the surrounding landscape. There I discovered, looking at the bright blue sky, a bare tree on the top of a hill. Standing there: lonely. I stared at it for a while. What struck me was the loneliness of…

Some time ago I was with my wife in a hotel somewhere in the Netherlands. Lovely beach hotel fully prepared against COVID-19. What struck me in the hotel room on transition to the bathroom in a black stone threshold that had white spots in it. That threshold looked like a…