I guess I am muddling around uncertainty at the moment. How to live with it – afterall, that is what life is. Messy. Muddy. Mostly multiple shades of grey, with some mathematics and laws of nature to frame it. Do you know how to live in grey and be relaxed and enjoy it, too?   [...]

This year has been a dynamic one. Physically and metaphysically I have been moving a lot. And a little. I have been stuck and I have been unstuck floating in the breeze or catching the winds of an unfurled sail and an unfurled story. One thing I keep being confronted with, as I move places, [...]

I was suddenly reminded of a conversation I had with a friend a few years ago. He rang me up and asked me for a coffee because he wanted my advice. As soon as we sat down he began to talk about how he had been offered a very high profile job which in his [...]

I just saw this image and was reminded of something I wanted to blog about almost 2 years ago – "everyone can draw" If you ask a child if they can draw they will likely say ‘yes’ and grin. They will also likely go draw you something and expect you to see what it is [...]

"Who Am I Alreay Now That I Can Be?" – question thanks to Diederick Janse, at The Hub Amsterdam ‘s Collaboration Day – thanks for a great conversation all!) Can Image: Campbell’s Soup 1968 (c) Andy Warhol I am SO mindful that such questions as this one bring us back to what actions we CAN [...]

The Point of Life is Life – Goethe “Don’t search for answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live [...]

"…There is a famous story told of a child who continually annoyed his father. In desperation the father took a map of the world, tore it into many pieces and told his son to put the puzzle pieces back together to make the map of the world. Knowing the child had not learned what the [...]

This being human is a guest house Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may [...]

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; Ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive" – Howard Thurman*   *A little note: apparently this quote is often attributed to the fictitious, well according to wikipedia, Harold Thurman Whitman. Whoever wrote [...]

Image: Echo (c) Steve Solinsky "Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again, But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves [...]