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The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you. — Elizabeth Aston

Play this song in your head!

Just when I thought that the winter was over, the temperature keeps dropping to minus. And it’s snowing. In fact, in some other cities, it has been snowing quite heavily for the last few days. Snowing during holiday seasons can be very romantic but now it’s time for some sunshine. Yes, I want and NEED

Oliver Twist (chapter 3, part 3/3)

Good morning, ladies! I just had a very modish breakfast this morning: some cereals, banana and 2 cups of tea. It should be enough to get through the morning … well, my until lunch time anyway (SMILE). I have a very long To-Do list for today; I better get my Friday started! So, I’ll be leaving

Crispy fried salmon with spring vegetables

Yesterday I went to Albert Heijn (AH), my favorite supermarket. I call it my favorite because it’s near my house and I can get anything I need to stock my fridge. No to mentioned that at AH I can get some fantastic spring vegetables, from baby carrots with tops, baby fennel with its herby leaves,

The springtime is really coming your way!

Time does really fly when you are having fun. It is March already! So, how have you been and what have you been doing lately, ladies? I have been very busy and fully occupied with everything, both business projects and personal matters. This is why I love the beginning of each year so very much

Oliver Twist (chapter 3, part 2/3)

(start of chapter 3, part 2/3) As Mr. Gamfield did happen to labour under the slight imputation of having bruised three or four boys to death already, it occurred to him that the board had, perhaps, in some unaccountable freak, taken it into their heads that this extraneous circumstance ought to influence their proceedings. It

Memorizing my beloved mother

I am the daughter of earth and water,
And the nursling of the sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.

For after the rain when with never a stain,
The pavilion of heaven is bare,
And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams,
Build up the blue dome of air,

I silently

Celestial Love

Higher far,
Upward, into the pure realm,
Over sun or star,
Over the flickering Dæmon film,
Thou must mount for love,—
Into vision which all form
In one only form dissolves;
In a region where the wheel,
On which all beings ride,
Visibly revolves;
Where the starred eternal worm
Girds the world with bound and term;
Where unlike things are like,
When good and ill,
And joy and moan,
Melt

march 2010

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