So I've been horribly neglectful of my LJ the last two months; unbelievable to think I haven't posted anything in 2012 yet. I guess it's representative of how hectic things have been on many levels in the last couple of months ( Read more... )

To not lay the burden on someone else, to not unload the guilt on another, to not pour out the confusion to someone else.

I'm your confusion, he said.
In this he's right, and in some many other things. How to explain to the person who knows you best in the whole world, that you don't know yourself anymore.

Someone who knows you so completely. Someone ( Read more... )

The French historian Fernand Braudel distinguished three different modes in which time passes and is experienced: the evenements, or short term events (political, individual), the conjonctures, or medium term events (economic, regional), and the longue dureé;, or long term events (geological, ideological, global ( Read more... )

Have you felt like a song or album was written just to express the experiences you've had? I think that's a very common feeling and two people with completely different emotions and experiences can recognise themselves in the same song ( Read more... )

My highschool philosophy teacher once said: "animals don't have language; therefore, they don't think". I racked my brain trying fit this into my own experience of living and working with animals. I don't know if I've succeeded in forming an opinion on a scientific level but certainly on a personal level I have.
Whether animals can think and whether ( Read more... )

A strange heat wave has hit the Netherlands; for a week the days have been marked by heat, blue skies and orange leaves covering the bike paths. The latter is the only indication that it is in fact autumn, not summer. If the progress of seasons wasn't bound chronologically you would think that July - September was autumn and that it is now summer. ( Read more... )

My fail moment of the week:

Panicking to unbuckle my seatbelt and leap out of the car to avoid the deadly clutches of the enormous spider crawling down my back, until I realise the car is still reversing into the street and the terrifying spider is actually a leaf....

Fear is rational.

Emotionally exhausting day, perhaps the hardest in months (wow, good timing to rejoin LJ...)

Today my good friend R told me that she has broken up with her boyfriend of 8.5 years because she found out he had for months been having an affair with her best friend and now wasn't sure who he wanted to be with. They were apparantly sleeping together ( Read more... )

So 51 minutes later I'm back from my journey through Livejournal, a little bit wiser and lot more confused (mostly because I'm still trying to coordinate this website...).

I suppose it's not necessary to make a decision as regards what to write. Those random sentences and sometimes stories that I blurt all over scraps of paper that now fill drawers ( Read more... )

How early is too early to knock on your neighbours' door to get the Therapy? CD you ordered that was delivered there? Impatient...