After 7 years spent living here in the heartland of Belgium ... I'm heading away from 't stad' and out into the 'parking' that is the rest of Belgium, or so some Antwerpenaars have told me. 't stad being 'the stad' abbreviated ... or the city.
I'm off on a 2 week Wallonian adventure, complete with one fierce rooster on whom I've been told not to turn my back.
Stories will follow. Meanwhile, meet the rooster. He's the tallest scariest rooster I've ever seen.
I have a new screen for my laptop !
It sits here, next to my trusty and much-loved 14 inch laptop screen ... dwarfing it, at 22 inches.
How have I suvived until now???
Gert talked me into the screen.
Me, the sometimes wandering woman, who doesn't want to load herself down with or even get used to a mouse ... I just make do with my laptop's touchpad thingy. It drives others crazy when they borrow my laptop.
Sigh. I'm already in love with this massive screen. 5 minutes after test-driving it.
My photographs ... they look so damn good on the big screen.
Hmmm, I need to think how I can incorporate this into my wandering life. Milan ground staff already give me trouble when they weigh my equipment hand-luggage. The same hand-luggage I fly to Italy with is too heavy toleave with. A 22 inch screen ... and maybe even I wouldn't dare to be outraged about that.
Mutter mutter, I shall have to practice driving on the wrong side of the road, and work on being far more aggressive. I'll drive to Italy from now on ... shan't I.
Bliss... problems problems but BLISS.
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
I'm trying to work out if I like this shot or not. No better way than to post it here on the blog ...
I took it back in 2009, without a tripod ... just kind of making do.
On July 25th, 2012 Baumgartner jumped from an altitude of 96,640ft / 29,455m at 536mph / 863kph; after 3 minutes and 48 seconds in freefall leading up to a 10 minute and 36 descent.
I do believe I might have found an oasis of calm here in Antwerp but more to follow. Yoga is most definitely a plan in the weeks ahead.
Miss 8 and I went wandering in Rivierenhof ...
