Sometimes songs can remind you of certain moments....sometimes songs give you a certain feeling...
I have allways loved the song "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, don't ask me why, I don't have memories that contain this song, just gives me a romantic feeling...
A few years back there was a movie with Reese Witherspoon and handsome Josh Lucas about a girl who has to go back to Alabama to devorce her childhood love but they fall in love again. At the villagefestival the band Jewel plays "Sweet Home Alabama" ...my romantic heart allmost jumped out of my body....yes I know...sentimental...pppff
I would have loved being at that villagefestival...dancing...
After seeing this film again together with my Dad and Irene I had a memory to go with it, my Dad saying Earl&Pearl Smooter (parents in de film) over and over again made me laugh so hard and long...I'm smiling now....
Back to today, the reason I have seen Southern Train perform 3 times in only 5 weeks is not only because the guys are very good and lovable but they play "Sweet Home Alabama" !!!
Okay, it's not at a villagefestival but the feeling is there, my heart jumps everytime they play.
So rock on Southern Train, your no.1 fan will come aboard your train when she can !
www.southerntrain.nl
maandag 13 februari 2012
donderdag 2 februari 2012
Cobra
Because I have Museum Year Card I can visit over 400 museums in Holland for free.
Here in Haarlem I've been to a few old ones, Frans Hals and Teylers are my favourites. The Hermitage in Amsterdam is nice and the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden is a good place if you love history!
I love the silence, the smell of the past, the beautiful old frames around the -not allways beautiful- paintings. It's like time stands still when I'm walking around. No distractions from outside because I allways put my coat and bag in a safety deposit. No phone. Just me and my eyes, my thoughts.....it makes me calm...I can spend hours being there with myself and art.
It's like a gift to myself...
So today I went to Amstelveen, a 40 min busride from home. My destination was the Cobra Museum of modern art. The first time to a modern museum. But I was very dissapointed, the building looks cold from the outside en feels cold on the inside. A lot of glass and whiteness surrounds you...a big hallway downstairs and a room upstairs with roomdividers....It's like a maze.....
The art on display didn't touch me at all, paintings by Klee, Appel,Corneille....big names I know but the paintings are all to abstract, surreal....
So after a cappucino in the museumcafe - again all glass and white - I left with an empty feeling...
But that's not a bad thing, I have also learnt what I do like.
I like old buildings, historic tales, realistic paintings and I know now that my favourite painters are Breitner and Israel. Breitners painting : girl in kimono is one of the special paintings because the girl looks like my girl.
And I can see them every day if I want to, just 10 min on my bike for some calm moments...
Here in Haarlem I've been to a few old ones, Frans Hals and Teylers are my favourites. The Hermitage in Amsterdam is nice and the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden is a good place if you love history!
I love the silence, the smell of the past, the beautiful old frames around the -not allways beautiful- paintings. It's like time stands still when I'm walking around. No distractions from outside because I allways put my coat and bag in a safety deposit. No phone. Just me and my eyes, my thoughts.....it makes me calm...I can spend hours being there with myself and art.
It's like a gift to myself...
So today I went to Amstelveen, a 40 min busride from home. My destination was the Cobra Museum of modern art. The first time to a modern museum. But I was very dissapointed, the building looks cold from the outside en feels cold on the inside. A lot of glass and whiteness surrounds you...a big hallway downstairs and a room upstairs with roomdividers....It's like a maze.....
The art on display didn't touch me at all, paintings by Klee, Appel,Corneille....big names I know but the paintings are all to abstract, surreal....
So after a cappucino in the museumcafe - again all glass and white - I left with an empty feeling...
But that's not a bad thing, I have also learnt what I do like.
I like old buildings, historic tales, realistic paintings and I know now that my favourite painters are Breitner and Israel. Breitners painting : girl in kimono is one of the special paintings because the girl looks like my girl.
And I can see them every day if I want to, just 10 min on my bike for some calm moments...
woensdag 1 februari 2012
My favourite Picture Ever !!
With my beautiful Mother in the garden of Nana Betty in England, I was about 7....Just Love It ! Love U Mama !
vrijdag 27 januari 2012
Calm Stream of Life
After a time of silence I will write to you again..
We needed that time to reflect last year, a year with high moments but with more lows and stressfull situations. They have not knocked us out but have made us stronger and more together.
No need to look back here, we are looking forward and we have decided that 2012 is going to be a year of enjoying ourselfs.
When we sit for a meal with the kids, every evening is a joy with stories en laughter, sometimes serious issues come along...
Love the hugs I get from my Son who is taller then me now, I can see the man he's going to become..
My Meis, torn apart between girl and little woman....love seeing her grow..
We have met a lovely new group friends with who we share life experiances , with who we drink and enjoy the music some of us give to others.
We embrace our family, listen to their wise words of comfort and love. Lean on them when we have the need to...
Finally we have time for ourself, listen to our body, sleep when tired, eat and drink what we want, I have started zumba-lessons in the good company of my daughter.
Lief is making new music and sharing it with the world at www.flapcan.nl on the Open Podium nights.
We walk a lot through the dunes around our lovely hometown, 3 hours in the beautiful nature is enough to load up our battery and the capuccino afterwards never tasted so good !!
We all are looking forward to this summer, we have booked 2 holidays !
First Lief and I are going to Slovenia for a week, we have a little studio for ourselfs, lovely nature to walk for hours surrounds us.
After that we are back at work for 2 weeks, the kids are going on scoutscamp in those weeks, and to complete it all we are all going to my Dad and Irene in England for a week. Finally I can show Lief and the kids where I was born.
As for now, we float on our Calm Stream of Life and embrace every minute of it.
X
We needed that time to reflect last year, a year with high moments but with more lows and stressfull situations. They have not knocked us out but have made us stronger and more together.
No need to look back here, we are looking forward and we have decided that 2012 is going to be a year of enjoying ourselfs.
When we sit for a meal with the kids, every evening is a joy with stories en laughter, sometimes serious issues come along...
Love the hugs I get from my Son who is taller then me now, I can see the man he's going to become..
My Meis, torn apart between girl and little woman....love seeing her grow..
We have met a lovely new group friends with who we share life experiances , with who we drink and enjoy the music some of us give to others.
We embrace our family, listen to their wise words of comfort and love. Lean on them when we have the need to...
Finally we have time for ourself, listen to our body, sleep when tired, eat and drink what we want, I have started zumba-lessons in the good company of my daughter.
Lief is making new music and sharing it with the world at www.flapcan.nl on the Open Podium nights.
We walk a lot through the dunes around our lovely hometown, 3 hours in the beautiful nature is enough to load up our battery and the capuccino afterwards never tasted so good !!
We all are looking forward to this summer, we have booked 2 holidays !
First Lief and I are going to Slovenia for a week, we have a little studio for ourselfs, lovely nature to walk for hours surrounds us.
After that we are back at work for 2 weeks, the kids are going on scoutscamp in those weeks, and to complete it all we are all going to my Dad and Irene in England for a week. Finally I can show Lief and the kids where I was born.
As for now, we float on our Calm Stream of Life and embrace every minute of it.
X
dinsdag 13 december 2011
Onze eerste boom
Niet helemaal waar, vorig jaar stond op die plek ook een gezellige boom, rijk versierd en feestelijk verlicht.
Minpuntje van dat jaar was dat de kinderen en ik na een gezellige avond weer naar onze flat terug moesten want er was toen nog geen slaapgelegenheid voor de kinderen in huis.
Een druk en hectisch jaar verder weer een boom, mooi recht en gezellig ! Nu blijven we allemaal bij deze boom, de kinderen hebben hun eigen kamer, de hond en katten passeren elkaar stilletjes op 10cm afstand, in de flat tuigt een gescheiden moeder samen met haar kind een boom op. Ik voel met haar mee...
Ik zit hier lekker loom in mijn pyama en kijk naar onze 'eerste' boom en ben tevreden !
Iedereen veel liefde voor alle dagen, niet alleen met kerst !!
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