Green House Lovers (26-10-2021)
Deciding Which Sugar To Euthanize Me
Deciding Which Sugar To Euthanize Me (29-3-2021)
White Christmas African Time, Very Late!
White Christmas African Time, Very Late! (7-2-2021)
Dark Clouds Hanging Above The Netherlands
Dark Clouds Hanging Above The Netherlands (26-1-2021)
Bordeline Running Rotterdam Right – Ridderkerk Left
Borderline Running Rotterdam Right – Ridderkerk Left (25-1-2021)
Right of Agitation – A note to those people fighting for “our” freedom
Right of agitation Let me start by saying I support your right of agitation, to protest and to resist. I am very ambivalent about all the measures taken and the explanation given by the government in the fight against Covid-19. They are confusing and contradictory. So I understand your anger and confusion too. For close …
A Very Dutch New Year’s Eve Tradition
A Very Dutch New Year’s Eve Tradition (31-12-2020)
Like Missy Said I Can’t Stand The Rain
Like Missy Said I Can’t Stand The Rain (23-12-2020)
Behind The Bridge Over Troubled Trees
Behind The Bridge Over Troubled Trees (15-12-2020)
Calling For More English Tea Please!
Calling For More English Tea Please! (5-12-2020)
White is a colour too
Somehow in the past we have, by a kind of mutual consent, agreed to give each other a colour code. You can argue about the correctness of the colour classification but we agreed on white, black, brown, even yellow. Why then do we accept it when some people are referred to as “people of colour” …
Is That A Dog In The Sky
Is That A Dog In The Sky. A dog wagging its tail in the sky. (5-11-2020)
I am not racist is not the same as we are not racists!
I wrote this before and will repeat it. The fact that I don’t discriminate does not mean we don’t discriminate. So when people talk about their experiences, listen first. Hear them before you start defending yourself or things you don’t know. 99% of the time they are not talking about you! People know who their …
Poverty Porn and The Messiah Syndrome
Let me begin on a funny note. Every time I post a reflective thought on Facebook, “friends” unfriend me en masse. Since I shared my latest thoughts If I was born & grew up in Europe, even as a black person, I’d be scared of Africa & Africans too 20 people (mostly black/African people) have …
Windmills in Kinderdijk
Windmills are as Dutch as wooden shoes. In Kinderdijk you get to see some century old windmills. You get to see how the Dutch lived centuries ago.
The old vibrant poor rich man
When I took this picture in 2017, this man was 92. Very much alive, healthy and energetic. He was, without realising it himself, one of the richest human beings in Africa if not in the world. You see the world had made him believe that he was a poor man. But this is a man …