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.
To become silent is to become a woman. And mother. All willingness to love and receive every word; then to wait motionless and finally to give birth: the life-giving word. And again. And again.
Who is actually at the controls of what you think and feel? And if you now say: ‘that is myself’, what or who is that, that ‘self’?
More than seventy million dead and 55 years later, Hitler’s last secretary looks back with incomprehension on the fact that she did not say ‘no’
Bloomplaats Transitium was given the time to reinvent itself for eighteen months. Like this one in Malve Dau and Marieke Hildenbrant also had two mothers.
Man runs after his own drama. And wonders, ‘what am I so busy with?’.
‘…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.
