Here she is OUR QUEEN BEATRIX

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April 30 2013

our Queen Beatrix

will abdicate

and

her son Willem Alexander

will be our KING

She has been our Queen

for 33 years 

She is also a MOTHER

to her three sons

and her son Willem Alexander

is a father of three girls 

We are are having

his lovely wife Maxima

as  Queen by his side

Maxima is from Argentina

and she brought a lot 

of sunshine in our Holland

Every-one loves her.

There will be parties 

in each and every town or village

and the decoration colour

will be 

ORANGE

our national colour .

this will be our last 

QUEENS-DAY

We will have 

KINGSDAY

from now on 

I wish our Queen

wonderful 

happy days 

and years 

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looking forward

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There will come

a time

when you believe

everything

is finished.

That will be

 THE BEGINNING

Louis Lamour 

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I guess

every woman

gets in the place

wondering

how the future

can be

after finishing

taking care of 

her family 

and/ or 

 her job .

absolutely

NOT

the end of the world

but 

just coming into 

A NEW PHASE

and not JUST a new phase

but 

an opportunity

to combine

all we have done

and learned 

into

something

NEW

and not ONLY that

it is also

time

to do those things

that are WAITING

have been waiting 

for 

THIS TIME

HERE

AND NOW

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that's really 

EXCITING

and

sometimes

confusing but in a happy way 

Spring

has that same 

invisable strength

PROMISSING

happy

joyful

I wonder

how my summer

will be 

I hope filled

with

surprises

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words that define what you're doing

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today

I saw a documtary

about 

DOYALD YOUNG

I never heard of him

but 

my youngest son's girlfriend

send me a link

to see it .

I was so so 

DEEPLY MOVED

not only 

by seeing the documentary

but 

maybe even more

because 

it was because of this 

young girl

I am just starting to get to know

and we share

something

unique

THE LOVE

for lettering !

recognising 

things 

I also do and love 

in this documentary

was something

that was 

wonderful

I love 

WORDS

their sound or meaning

I always look words up

in my dictionary

I love learning new words

in THIS language

by reading blogs I love

because

it's not JUST 

the words

It's the person

behind the words

too

that matters 

to me 

I was searching for a way

I could get to know

this wonderful girl

my newest daughter-in-law

She is modest and calmly

and most of the times

we met all the other ones

were here also 

so FULL HOUSE

and 

so

I wondered

HOW

can I get to know her better.

I always LOVED

that when I was a teacher

and a new child came in my group

I always loved 

the searching to get a band 

to wait

and look

and be patience

and find 

A WAY 

always 

a SURPRISE

With her

I suddenly decided

to send her POST

real snail-mail 

old fashioned handwritten mail.

and

she loved it 

she also LOVES snailmail

and handwriting !

She send me the link

and I could not believe

this miracle

http://www.lynda.com/Documentaries-tutorials/doyaldyounglogotypedesigner/62371-2.html

If you love 

handwriting too

and also 

the passion of the man 

take some time

and watch 

be surprised 

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coming up soon

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'The time has come,'

 the walrus said,

 'to talk of many things

: of shoes and ships

 - and sealing wax -

 of cabbages and kings.'

Lewis Carroll

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April  30 

our QUEEN BEATRIX

will step down

and her son will be our KING .

for 33 years she was our Queen

and she was a very good one .

now it's time for the next generation

she said in her speech .

I feel with her 

being a grandmother now

and I also stepped down .........

That's life

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always look at the bright side of life

*

it's often 
the small things
that make me
smile

like this 
little beach house
in the most happy blue !

You know
when it's there
when it goes 
from your eyes
to your heart and soul 

Happy
surprises
for all
of you 

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colours

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"our deepest fear is not

that we are inadequate .
Our deepest fear is
that we are
 POWERFUL
BEYOND MEASURE .
It is our light , 
not our darkness 
that most frightens us .

We ask ourselves 
Who am I to be
 brilliant  
gorgeous
talented
fabulous ?

Actually 
who are you
not to be ?

You are a child of God
Your playing small
does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about 
shrinking 
so that other people 
won't feel insecure around you .

We are all meant 
to shine
as children do.
We were born 
to make manifest 
the glory of God
that is within us.

It's not just in some of us
It's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine
we unconsciously
give other people 
the permission to do the same.

As we are liberated
from our own fear,
our presence automatically 
liberates others "

Spoken by Nelson Mandela
in 1994
at his inauguration
it actually comes 
from the book 
A RETURN TO LOVE
1992
by Marianne Williamson

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Last sunday
I had my postponed
GIRLFRIENDS-BIRTHDAY-CELEBRATION
My birthday is in november
AUTUMN
and now it was 
SPRING
a whole other season

I lost my younger sister
in autumn

The theme was
C O L O U R
my girlfriends all
told something
on their own unique way

  Barbara
lives in France
she made me a book 
filled with Haiku's
she wrote one 
every day

La lune blanchit
Et le blue sápprofondit
Et la nuit est lá

de maan licht op
en het blauw verdiept zich
en dan is het nacht 

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another friend
used the 
mandela/williamson words
when she told us about
confessing colour
( kleur bekennen = a dutch expression )
confessing is making something
known to the world
what has been hidden
until than .....

colour
is an expression of the soul 
colour is quality of the soul 
The kind of colour 
you would like to express yourself in
YOUR COLOUR

How beautiful the world would be
if everyone was wearing
his/her true colour ?

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The mouse with the
colourful suit 
was a present from another
friend 
Happy colours
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I had 
an afternoon 
filled with 
beautiful
inspiring friends
who give
 my life 

COLOUR

Astrid -Barbara -leontien-Saskia-Saskia-Sylvia


a wonderful
start
of a new week 
wish you all
colours
lots of them 
to make you happy
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treasures

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Waking up

already

 LIGHT

 outside

I love the morning-light .

*

these pieces of jewellery

are traditional

for a part of Holland

called 

ZEELAND

they belong to the

traditional costumes

now belonging to the past.

*

I inherited some

from my mother

and keep them in a box 

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and than I saw this

in a magazine 

old into new

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and I realised this morning

waking up 

the sun already shining

how 

my life is 

some old and some new too

For long

there was much more old

and little bits of new

Now 

there is a part old

but so much space

for new

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hope 

new

surprises

come

to you 

this 

first APRIL week

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