“This situation is an opportunity. You have to turn the negative into a positive,” says Josie Martin. Martin is the creator and owner/operator of The Giants House in Akaroa, in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It’s a historic villa with terraced gardens full of sculptures, mosaics and ceramics by the artist. We’re talking on the phone in March …
To solve or to relax, that’s the question
So, what solutions do you suggest, Sitara?, asked someone after reading my column “The world has always been burning”. This often happens when I try to describe or critique the world and what’s going on – or what’s not going on – from a vantage point of “no-problem”. It’s a good question. It’s not often …
Alles staat op springen
“Alles staat op springen, de wereld staat in brand, er gebeuren zoveel dingen en ze lopen uit de hand“. Ken je dit zinnetje? Het komt uit een liedje van Boudewijn de Groot van wie ik vroeger een langspeelplaat had. Het was eind jaren zeventig, begin jaren tachtig en ik ken de melodie nog. In de …
The world has always been burning
“Everything’s near collapse, the world is burning, there’s too much going on, the situation is escalating.” This is my clumsy rendering of a sentence by Dutch singer-songwriter Boudewijn de Groot who is sometimes referred to as “the Dutch Bob Dylan”. I used to listen to one of his records throughout the late seventies and early …
