
On this grey day I took outside my colorful jacket and enjoyed the difference
On this grey day I took outside my colorful jacket and enjoyed the difference
I saw this scene when I walked into the pet store the day before yesterday to buy a present for my two birds. I guess they do this in nature too, lying there both bored, sleepy and peaceful at the same time. You would almost think we have shared ancestors…
I just heard that they say that we are all different whereafter I thought yeah but there is still more of the same in all of us
You eat everything you see but only the same now you lie heavy down on your back your eyes follow your hanging head looking at the world upside down
Is this my last stare? End of my new beginning. What brings tomorrow?
The little kid in me disappeared when I arrived for the first time I still see him staring from a distant memory triggered to hide not from my stare but a sudden movement unfamiliarity I slowly move away as not to scare him for good
Most of us can almost
see the labels
tact on us
before we can struggle
You looked at me with no clue what I was I stood up walked away and you followed me but only with that look
I've only listened to your inside
but I will recognize you
if I see you on the street
I give you something felt from my heart love in so many words what I know I felt it maybe not the words a need is there difference
I sometimes wonder
if my mind my mood
changes color
to hide
for me or for you
what I don't know
or feel
I had a girlfriend in 1996 who studied biology, and she often had to go to Burgers zoo to study the different apes there. I tried to tag along as often as possible. I am not sure if I ever met Frans de Waal, but he has written several well-known books, and I have read some of them. I met his mentor Jan Van Hoof who was a professor in Utrecht, where my girlfriend studied, and we also lived. It was fun to follow some of the lectures, but I am glad it was just for fun; she had to learn a lot.
I like to look at the chickens in our garden. I like their behavior, they move like people do, but with no arms. They also move together, but don’t care for each other. Some wander off, but never to far. They act like they always starve, chasing sudden movements of a hand that points, in expectance. And most striking, they let it all go without care, even when they step in it, on their way back.