Imposing structure to find structure
The topics of chaos and order have become of interest to me lately. Or perhaps they’ve always interested me in some form or other and I’m only now finding two interesting concepts that match well […]
Other early childhood memories
This post is a side-note to Everything is a witness statement. I remember being fed baby food from a jar. I remember being fed small squares of bread with jam. My mother would cut the […]
Everything is a witness statement
Let me share some memories with you. I remember lying in my crib as a baby, and two heads appearing above me. They were radiating exuberance. A hand reached for the mechanical toy above my […]
Ear tubes, tonsils and braces
As a kid, I was already dairy intolerant. I had problems after every glass of milk. Nobody knew, milk was at that time being marketed as “good for everyone”. I had ear, nose and throat […]
The loss of redemption and the judgement of worth
We were watching the documentary Uncle Tom. I don’t remember exactly what the timestamp was, but at one point I said “hold on”. We paused the documentary, something we do a lot to discuss the […]
Rewriting history
Memory is limited.. Today’s story shows it. In an earlier post I talked about the lip sync evenings in our village. I remember I participated with my mother in one of those. I remember she […]
Myopia status update july 2020
On Thursday the 23nd of july, I had my first check-up for high myopia at the hospital. When, in January of this year, the optometrist measured -16, which was a 2 diopter difference from two […]
Podcast 2 – Finding common ground between a doubting Atheist and a Christian
One of the most striking things I’ve ever read is that good mental health is associated with some form of spirituality. I realize that, over time, I lost (or renounced) any faith or spirituality. I […]
How to identify flaws in your own reasoning
How often do you Google for the opposite of your own opinion? Not to pretend to be all holy and saintlike, but I sometimes do. I would love to say it has made me omniscient, […]
Home is not a place
Around 2005, 15 years ago now, I fled the chaos and moved out. I moved 100 kilometres to go live in the city where I was attending university, Eindhoven. Life wasn’t easy, having just left […]