I would have liked to have been a coffee drinker.
That seems like a strange wish, as it’s so easily realised: I could literally grab a cup almost everywhere I go. Cafes serve coffee, train stations serve coffee, even supermarkets and shops have coffee corners nowadays. There’s an excellent Nespresso machine in my house, but it’s only used for visitors. I don’t use it, I don’t drink it. But I would have liked to. Continue reading “On drinking coffee”
Sometimes you hear someone talk lovingly about all the options people have these days. The possibilities, they say, are endless. While this may sound like a good thing, I do think there are some serious downsides to it and that’s what I want to write about today. Continue reading “On endless possibilities”
Unlike last month, I do have some goals for February. Keeping the flowing/planning balance I talked about in last Monday’s post in mind, I have limited myself to three goals for this month. Continue reading “February goals”
In my January goals post, I mentioned how I wanted to go with the flow, to get away from all the planning and to do lists for a while. So here’s how that went. Continue reading “On planning and flowing”
This is the story of how I visited the Castello Sforzesco museum in Milan, expecting it to be a nice but ordinary museum, and came across the most beautiful work of art I’d ever seen. Continue reading “On Michelangelo’s Rondanini Pietà”
Of all the years months, December tends to be the busiest one. Between preparing for and celebrating three separate holidays (Christmas, New year’s Eve and the Dutch Sinterklaas), looking for a job and getting hit by the flu, December 2016 sure lived up to its reputation. That’s why I only have one goal for January this year: Continue reading “January goals (or lack thereof)”
While lying in bed the other day, waiting for sleep to come and take my mind off all the memories and thoughts that tend to occupy me when I should be sleeping, I had a realization. It went something like this: while I am here thinking about random events and people, surely there must be someone somewhere thinking about me as well. Continue reading “On thinking about people”
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