Category: my journey

  • Meaning in life

    Thinking about living in this world three things come to my mind. Journey, connected, and balance. Of course there is a lot more, but those three I ponder at the moment 🙂 The word journey became more important to me over the last years because living life feels to me…

  • Closed indefinitely

    Lillian took this photo when we we in Pai last week. The note stuck to a little second hand book shop. I had to grin because it is one of those things that on some days makes Thailand very charming and on other days it can drive you into madness.…

  • Doors and Windows

    Barely enough time to update my blog, or sometimes I am just to tired to sit behind my computer. Yesterday I cam from another trip in Hui Kau Laam. Talk with Cati and Mida about the construction project and plans to open a preschool in Hui Kau Laam. I also…

  • On the Way

    I am on the way. Not only in the mountains. But also in my life. I reached mid-life (what a stupid term, especially because we don’t really know when we reached it). I realized that alot of what I learned over the years catch up with me and impact me…

  • Men’s challenge Weekend

    Friday evening and Saturday I went to my first men’s retreat ever. I actually signed up only two days before, because I have quite a hard time with deciding to bear my heart once more in front of strangers. In the past I have been in numerous seminars and conferences.…

  • Lord of the rings

    I just finished reading the Lord of the rings. I read it about 15 years ago and part of it when the movies came out. I really got into the book fast and enjoyed the reading very much. There are so many more details in the book which are not…

  • The speed of life

    Lately I process through a lot of things in my life. Surely not the first time. But I catch myself struggling with the fact that I get older. Not physically. I am in better shape then some years ago. The struggle is more with my soul. "However fast a man…

  • About an old life

    I watched the Return of the King the other evening. Nearly at the end Frodo reflects on his adventure and thinks/writes the following: "How do you pick up the threads of an old life. How do you get on when in your heart you begin to understand there is no…