A blog by Frits Koster The drastic climate changes are obvious. Shifts are being observed all over the world. In general, future life does not look favourable for humans, plants…

A blog by Joyce Cordus Last weekend I was at the North Sea Jazz festival. There was one singer, Lizz Wright, who moved me to tears. It wasn’t just her…

A blog by Joyce Cordus This week I received a sweet message from a friend. It made me very happy because our friendship has just entered a new phase. We…

A blog by Frits Koster ‘Solitude vivifies, isolation kills‘ – Joseph Roux (1834-1905), priest, writer and poet I recently read  “The Lonely Century” (Spectre, 2020) by Noreena Hertz after seeing…

A blog by Joyce Cordus I recently read the book “Soedah, laat maar,” a Dutch novel by Maddy Stolk (‘Sudah, never mind’ in English). Tara, the main character in the…

A blog by Frits Koster and Joyce Cordus On Oct. 7, 2023, violence escalated in the Middle East when Hamas fired rockets at Israel and launched an unprecedented operation in…

A blog by Joyce Cordus and Frits Koster “Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.” – Maya Angelou We thought it would be nice…

A blog by Joyce Cordus As I write this blog, it has been all but two weeks since my Achilles tendon tore off. As a result, I am now lying…

A blog by Frits Koster Forgiving sounds so easy but it turns out to be far from easy. When light things have gone wrong – at the hands of ourselves…

A blog by Joyce Cordus It will not have escaped your notice as readers living in the Netherlands: the sigh of relief from many, mostly black, people that went through…