Renee vos de Wael

Holiday season is knocking on our door. Dawali, Thanksgiving Sinterklaas, Christmas, it is here in about now and the next 6 weeks. We will be busy with being good and…

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein It is already week two in the new year. I have had a…

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ~ Mark Twain

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. ~ Gertrude Jekyll   This week has been…

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.”~Buddha With imagination anything is possible It has been a strange 2 weeks. I really…

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope.…

“The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding…

The white light streams down, to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow.  ~Charles R. Brown It was interesting to read your thoughts…

Take nothing but pictures.  Leave nothing but footprints.  Kill nothing but time.
~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto   Living in a place that is not mine is a challenge.  But this…

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. Jim Rohn   A long weekend is coming up on our side of the world and we have decided…

“You learn to put your emotional baggage where it will do some good, instead of using to shit on other people, or to blow up airplanes”Margaret Drabble   Do you…

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends – it gives a lovely light!  Edna St Vincent Mill…

Is it true that we will be happy if we find our balance?

  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.  ~Judy Garland Walking into a roomful of people and introducing myself is an interesting thing. …

As a child is born it has a long road of learning in front of her. The interesting thing is, that a baby trusts her intuition. This bundle of joy goes with the flow. One of the things she learns in early stages is to shake her head during feeding. That means no, that it is enough for her or that she is not hungry.

uising ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.   ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld The new school year has begun on our side of the world.…

My family and I live the lives of expats , moving from country to country for a few years at a time.  I am not sure if this is a well thought-out life style.  The reason why we made this choice was because, we wanted to travel in combination with our work and this has resulted in our moving around the globe.  Our children find this lifestyle normal and have only now begun  to realize that not every one packs up their bags, every two years to go unpack in another country. For some, this would be a nightmare.

The good kind of help. Asking for help, it does seem difficult at times – but why is this so? Are you too proud to ask – as you want…