What has love got to do with it?

Today is The Day After. And I feel good, enlightened, inspired, energized, clear-headed and light-hearted. It is amazing. It is the day after the 3-days retreat at the 'Zonheuvel', a lovely intimate green, tree-rich resort close to Doorn. It was a wonderful practical workshop with David Ellzey, working with the Sedona Method, on how we can be be open to love. Just allow being loved and loving, by letting go our limiting thoughts, feelings and beliefs, and beyond. I became fully aware that the stories I have created in my life, are stories of those particular moments in the past, coloured over time, and tend strongly defining who I am.
However, now given, and taken the choice, to live the story or let the story go, I am aware and feel that I am not my stories. I am far more than that. They are just one of the infinite pieces of me, and by letting them go, I am able to take away the limiting impact that they have on my thoughts and feelings in the moment - NOW. It was truly a cleansing experience. And I feel clear and happy, now, in this very moment. This morning at the breakfast table I shared this with Elliz. I said to her: "I love myself, I love you, unconditionally, and I am happy", and smiled. And she was happy for me.

Source: The Sedona Method; David Ellzey; De Sedona Methode - Nederland

Wednesday's

Have a beautiful view from the brasserie of the Atlantic Hotel; yellow dunes, grey beach and green blue sea of the Northsea, under a blue grey sky with big white grey clouds. Today it is May 5th; Liberation Day, a Dutch National holiday. Elliz and Bella are getting ready to go to Rokanje for a few days, at the summerhouse of Daniella. For me it is just an easy, laidback working day, and as the Coffee@Company and Cafe Madeleine are closed, I am here in Kijkduin. A nice change of scenery, however, a bit strange, while it feels as I am on one of my travels, sitting in the public area of this NH hotel. It feels a bit of vacation.

Tuesday's

Had a brief friendly chat with Edward, the father of Tijn, and ex-partner of Nisha, at Cafe Madeleine. Edward had been in Valencia over the weekend, and found it hard to be back in Holland, with its unpredictable, gloomy weather, and the blunt people. All within personal perspective, of course, however, I can understand his point of view.

For a few months now I come here frequently. Excellent wireless internet access, fine cafe latte, and nice hospitality. And an interesting outlook at the Madeleine.

Start

Monday morning at Coffee @ Company. Woke up before sunrise. Am a bit weary. Elliz has her first acquisition meeting, at Exact, with Daniella. And I dropped Bella at the day care. Bella looked forward to see Louise, the younger sister of Chantal. She brought her a present. But she was a day off. She was happy to be there, though.

The Element

Sir Ken Robinson, meanwhile, has a passion for reminding us that “We are all born with tremendous natural capacities, and that we lose touch with many of them as we spend more time in the world … with the result that many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they're really capable of achieving.” And to that I say, if you have a child who says, “Mom and Dad, I want to sing. I want to dance. I want to paint. I want to teach. I want to write books. I want to be president. I want to change the world.” Let them at least try. Support them. In other words, by all means do everything that you can to help our children find their lane so that they can be happy with who and what they were made to be.

Source by Betty Baye

Sit Ken Robinson at Youtube: Do Schools Kills Creativity?

Hold On by Anouk at 3FM with Giel Beelen

Three Days In A Row by Anouk at 3FM with Giel Beelen

Faith In My Moon by Anouk at 3FM with Giel Beelen

No Good For Me by Lisa LIVE at 3FM with Giel Beelen

Lisa Lois - No Good For Me

Every time you walk in
I feel somethin' amazing begin
Like a storm - like a flood in my heart, yeah

Every touch, every word
Feels like music that I’ve never heard
You give me - somethin' special from the start

Chorus:
Just when I - think that I finally found some good love
You go take it away
Just when I - think that I finally found some good love
You go give it away to someone who's no good for you.
Boy you make me see - you’re no good for me
No good for me - good for me - no good for me

Every smile makes me fly
Makes me feel like I’m ten stories high
Can’t come down - can’t let go
Of your heart

(Chorus)

Source

Kane LIVE at 3FM with Giel Beelen

No Surrender


In Over My Head


Here Comes The End


Point Blank


Mash Up: I Got A Felling & Rain Down On Me

Rain Down On Me by Kane and Lisa at Radio 3 with Giel Beelen

I've been running through this town,
I've been combing every street.
I've been searching for the reason within reasons,
Been searching for the higher ground in me.
And I've been trying to surrender,
To trust in every word.
All my days of misery,
Someone could have taken them from me.

I've been searching for myself,
For oh so many times.
I've been searching for the answer within answers,
But no one seems to know what's on my mind.
Craving for her love,
Aching for her touch,
All my days of misery, someone could have taken them from me.

So tell me where you are,
Tell me how you feel.
Tell me what you need,
Just tell me how you feel.
And let it all just rain on me,
Let it all just rain on me,
Let it all just rain on me....
Rain down on me.

If only for a day,
Oh if only for one night,
I could tell you this is everything that i have ever lived for,
But I'd be giving it all away.
So look into these eyes,
And tell me how you feel.
All my days of misery, someone could have taken them from me.

So tell me where you are,
Tell me how you feel.
Tell me what you need,
Just tell me how you feel.
And let it all just rain on me,
Let it all just rain on me,
Let it all just rain on me...
Rain down on me.

Source

Stone Cold Sober covered by Lisa at Radio 3 with Giel Beelen

I'll be the late night lady you won't recognize,
I'm a chameleon I'm always in disguise
I'd read your future but it's written in the past,
Take a good look might be your last

Don't try to show me, cause you don't know me,
Stay away!!

I can be wilder than the wind,
119 miles an hour,
I'm in a whole other dimension,
Dancing doubles on the floor,
You think I'm crazy, a little bit hazy,
But I'm stone cold sober

You're telling me something
But there's nothing cheap as words
I'm walking away before I do affect the birds
Excuse me Mr I've got other things to do
Than to stand here listening to you

Stop talking at my face
Take a rocket out to space and ..
Stay away!!

I can be wilder than the wind
119 miles an hour
I'm in a whole other dimension,
Dancing doubles on the floor
You think I'm crazy, a little bit hazy
But I'm stone cold ..
I can be wilder than the wind
119 miles an hour
I'm in a whole other dimension,
Dancing doubles on the floor
You think I'm crazy, a little bit hazy
But I'm stone cold sober

In the madness of the storm,
I'm the one to carry on,
I don't need no medicine,
If you're looking for a cure,
Don't be knocking at my door,
I'll never let you in
Take a rocket out to space
And stay out of my place

I can be wilder than the wind
119 miles an hour
I'm in a whole other dimension,
Dancing doubles on the floor
You think I'm crazy, a little bit hazy
But I'm stone cold ..
I can be wilder than the wind
119 miles an hour
I'm in a whole other dimension,
Dancing doubles on the floor
You think I'm crazy, a little bit hazy
But I'm stone cold sober

Source

My Baby Left Me by Rox at Radio 3 with Giel Beelen

Rox - My Baby Left Me Lyrics and Video :-

Oh yeh
My baby left my sad
He didn’t do nothing right
My baby left me
My baby left me dry
My baby left my sad
He didn’t do nothing right
My baby left me
My baby left me so dry to the bone
and he left me alone
Oh yeh

Consequences after murder(?)
Situations did you further
Close one eye and dream the rest
I was called the early learner
and you were the heart stirrer(?)
but this I never coulda guessed
You pulled on me until you knew I’d break

My baby left my sad
He didn’t do nothing right
My baby left me
My baby left me dry
My baby left my sad
He didn’t do nothing right
My baby left me
My baby left me so dry to the bone
and he left me alone
Oh yeh

http://lyricsmusicvideo.blogspot.com/2010/03/rox-my-baby-left-me-lyrics-video.html

So who’s to blame for the messy ending
you say it’s me but we’d be pretending
you work your dirt just like a pro
Cos you were a
freedom fighter, compulsive liar,
and a really good lucky trier
More than I had ever known
You pulled on me until you knew I’d break

My baby left my sad
He didn’t do nothing right
My baby left me
My baby left me dry
My baby left my sad
He didn’t do nothing right
My baby left me
My baby left me so dry to the bone
and he left me alone (x3)


Source

Rox At Radio 3 with Giel Beelen - Fantastic cover of Crazy

"Crazy"

In a church by the face
He talks about the people going under
Only child know
A man decides after seventy years
That what he goes there for
Is to unlock the door
While those around him criticize and sleep
And through a fracture on that breaking wall
I see you my friend and touch your face again
Miracles will happen as we trip
But we're never gonna survive unless
We get a little crazy
No we're never gonna survive unless
We are a little
Cray cray crazy
Crazy are the people walking through my head
One of them got a gun to shoot the other one
And yet together they were friends at school
Get it, get it, get it, yeah!
If all were there when we first took the pill
Then maybe then maybe then maybe then maybe
Miracles will happen as we speak
But we're never gonna survive unless
We get a little crazy
No we're never gonna survive unless
We are a little
Crazy
No no we'll never survive unless we get a little bit
A man decides to go along after seventy years
Oh darling
In a sky full of people only some want to fly
Isn't that crazy
In a world full of people only some want to fly
Isn't that crazy
Crazy
In a heaven of people there's only some want to fly
Ain't that crazy
Oh babe Oh darlin'
In a world full of people there's only some want to fly
Isn't that crazy
Isn't that crazy Isn't that crazy Isn't that crazy
Oh
But we're never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy crazy
No we're never gonna to survive unless we are a little crazy
But we're never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy crazy
No we're never gonna to survive unless we are a little crazy
No no never survive unless we get a little bit
And then you see things
The size of which you've never known before
They'll break it
Someday
Only child know
Them things
The size
Of which you've never known before
Someday

Source

Shall we be humble or shall we know our magnificence?

Man keeps wanting to say, Oh, well, God created it all and then we came forth.

And we say, you are an extension of that which was created by that which you call God, but the creating that is going on now, is happening through you and by you.

You are the leading edge of creation!

Doesn't that excite you to know that?

It excites you to know that, if you are egotistical enough to know that. It excites you to know that, if you are willing to allow yourself to go with the flow of how magnificent you are.

But when you get more humble, it doesn't feel good, does it?

Abraham Hikcs, Boston, MA, weekly CD, 5/26/07

o, ik weet het niet

O, ik weet het niet,
maar besta, wees mooi.
zeg: kijk, een vogel
en leer me de vogel zien
zeg: het leven is een brood
om in te bijten en de appels zien rood
van plezier, en nog, en nog, zeg iets.
leer me huilen, en als ik huil
leer me zeggen: het is niets.

~Herman de Coninck



Bron: Herman de Coninck

Raise children who care

"God, help us not to raise a new generation of children
With high intellectual quotients and low caring and compassion quotients
With sharp competitive edge but dull cooperative instincts
With highly developed computer skills but poorly developed consciences
With a gigantic commitment to the big "I" but little sense of responsibility to the bigger "We"
With mounds of disconnected and unsynthesized information without a moral context to determine its worth
With more and more knowledge and less imagination and appreciation for the magic of life that cannot be quantified or computerized
With more and more worldliness and less and less wonder and awe for the sacred and everyday miracles of life.
God, help us to raise children who care."

A prayer for 21st Century children. From "A Letter to Parents" in "The Sea is so Wide and my Boat is so Small" by Marian Wright Edelman (2008).

Link: Children's Defense Fund

Polymath

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci - April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519 - was an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote".

“In the normal course of events many men and women are born with remarkable talents; but occasionally, in a way that transcends nature, a single person is marvelously endowed by Heaven with beauty, grace and talent in such abundance that he leaves other men far behind, all his actions seem inspired and indeed everything he does clearly comes from God rather than from human skill. Everyone acknowledged that this was true of Leonardo da Vinci, an artist of outstanding physical beauty, who displayed infinite grace in everything that he did and who cultivated his genius so brilliantly that all problems he studied he solved with ease.”

"Leonardo's disposition was so lovable that he commanded everyone's affection". He was "a sparkling conversationalist" who charmed Ludovico il Moro with his wit. Vasari sums him up by saying "In appearance he was striking and handsome, and his magnificent presence brought comfort to the most troubled soul; he was so persuasive that he could bend other people to his will. He was physically so strong that he could withstand violence and with his right hand he could bend the ring of an iron door knocker or a horseshoe as if they were lead. He was so generous that he fed all his friends, rich or poor.... Through his birth Florence received a very great gift, and through his death it sustained an incalculable loss."

By Giorgio Vasari

Source: Wikipedia