Fracas Noir || Susanne Waldau - te Brake I swear to tell the truth as I know it…

I’m listening to this beautiful Cuban son… Morenita by La Orquesta Magica de la Habana. And I’m reading about the earthquake on Haiti. Perhaps one is so used to blocking images of poor, destitute, helpless… It’s so far away to once own safety. But lately I have forced myself to look a second time…not just [...]

It’s been a while since I listened to classical music. And yet it’s the music I keep coming back to. When I was really young, my interest fell upon liturgical music, Gregorian to be specific. I recall being seduced by the stark, clear voices of Enigma. Then opera became the favourite du jour, Puccini shining [...]

I was suppose to wrap up some work stuff this evening. But other things came up, that seemed more important.
I think everyone experience it at some point… When you start questioning some of your friendships and relations. So I started thinking about friends… true friends. There are friends you know will be there for you, [...]

To my husband                                                               Haarlem 10-09-09

Happy birthday my love! I can’t tell you how happy I am to celebrate this and all your future birthdays with you. I hope they will [...]

I came across this tune on YouTube, which is something from the past….it’s from U96 with the obscure yet interesting name Club Bizzare. I used to love this song. I remember having this on my walkman rewinding it over and over as I was running at sunset. This was the year I fell in [...]

Thank God this day is OVER with big capitals! I have suffered, minutes have seemed like hours and anything work related has been an absolute pain. I’m referring of course to my sleepless night. Reinout thinks its good for me….he has this “just get over it” attitude and the fact that he is the [...]

Insight always come when you least expect it. Because when you search for it, it remains hidden, only to appear like a glimmer of gold lost on the bottom of a vast ocean. It’s sometime hard to recognise, and on the occasions it appears one only has a small window of opportunity to catch [...]

I really wish you could be with me now. Our house is so full of joy and laughter, like straight out of an old fashioned children’s story. It has such a pure and charming feeling to it, it in fact even outranks Christmas. In short it’s a happy house.
I didn’t sleep much last night. [...]

I’ve just got back from a long walk into town, where we enjoyed a nice lunch (I swapped my usual iced latte for a double espresso in the name of a low carb diet). When we reached the cross road, Reinout made a little detour into the jewellery shop. My heart leaped a notch, as [...]

So here it is again, Valentines, the biggest commercial fraud history has ever witnessed. And this time there is no Valentine present. I was under the impression that the biggest present ever would be here, but oh no, life had another plan in store. So I need to dedicate some time today to a) find [...]