During our three-year journey into the unknown, I was hardly prompted to seek external information. You would think that such a trip would give a huge space of free time, time to read and do all sorts of fun things you never get around to otherwise. But the trip in itself absorbed so much attention […]
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Researching the ancient Celtic roots of Europe As we sit in the Igreja Matriz in the town of Mertola, we muse over the word Matriz. The word refers to Mary, the Mother, but it also has other meanings: womb, uterus, matrix, and form. If the world is made up of energy and matter, then this
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by Ton van der Kroon, travellog Sinai, october 2023 Two weeks after the world woke up in shock and horror on 7 October, Anne and I are travelling towards the Sinai desert. ‘Is it wise to go?” we ask ourselves. Just like other trips, it feels we are flying straight into a storm. But once
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As I sit in the garden of the Templar castle in Tomar, I am suddenly reminded of our visit to the garden of the Orval monastery a few weeks ago, when we completed our five-day retreat with our group around the famous Source of Mathilde. We had gone through such an intense process in the
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“You look like Gandalf,” a woman calls out as I walk out of the gate at Les Contes with walking stick and backpack. I’m going out into the mountains alone for two days. I am wearing gray pants and a gray vest. Gandalf the Grey.After giving a group here in the Cathar countryside, it felt
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While I am waiting for 1,5 hours in the airplane to fly back to Portugal – after two weeks in the Netherlands and Belgium – the stewardess announces: “Dear people, due to a broken air conditioner, we can’t take off yet. We ask everyone to leave the plane again. Please take your hand luggage with
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For a while now, I have been doing yoga weekly again. After my teacher Anat passed away, it took me a long time to find my feet again. But across the street from me there is a new yoga school, so after a lot of uneasiness, resistance, and caution about my lungs, which took a
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‘I can’t seem to reach an agreement with the hotels on Pico’, Ton sighs, sitting behind his laptop. We are trying to organize our group trip to the Azores, but the communication with the hotels is not working out well. They do not respond, or only days later, and when they do they don’t give
‘Ton, can you wait for Shirley? She is a young Brazilian climate activist and she wants to join you on the mountain. She comes from the jungle and she doesn’t speak english…’ The question comes when I make myself ready to go up the mountain. Shouldn’t I join Anne, I wonder? We haven’t seen each
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“I sent you an email”, a friend of mine wrote to me, “with a recorded meditation that I recently followed, because I think it completely resonates with the call from Fatima that you received.” (…) (Read the further English translation underneath the Dutch text) ZIJ MET DE 1000 GEZICHTEN “Ik heb je een mailtje gestuurd”, appte
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