Today would have been Rob Schipper’s birthday. Together with Ton de Nooy he founded Jan XVII. For years, Rob kept watch faithfully, also literally, in ZeeVELD so that the efforts of the foundation could take shape here. He passed away earlier this year.
As a tribute, we recently placed a commemorative plaque on the house he had built on the site.
‘Our lives must fit within the framework that we have in mind for this’ I wrote in an earlier blog. That framework turns out to have a beautiful name: cognitive template…
If you stand with your nose on the ‘Night Watch’, you see a blob, a smudge, a stroke. Certainly not a painting to write home about. It only becomes that if you distance yourself from it…
Never out of date: ‘The soft forces will certainly win’ * The soft powers will surely win in the end — this I hear like
‘…that I don’t coincide with what I think and feel: thanks to Liber I now understand.’ Click on the picture and read what Elke says about Liber.
Hillary Clinton knows what caused her to lose the election: ‘the FBI broke the momentum’. That could well be true. But the way of thinking
Life has no meaning. Because life does not think in terms of ‘having’, but of giving. So life ‘has’ no meaning, but ‘creates’ meaning. In that life itself. Click on the image to continue reading.
