Watching the lobster in the fishtank made me wonder out loud how little lobster managed not to hurt itself with its brittle antennas.
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Wake up, the bird is up singing
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
I was out in the bay bay bay, they all go dum dum dum
A friend once said I would make a fine drugs courier with my innocent looks, but since they stopped me at customs I have scratched that possibility of my career options list. A genuine surprised face doesn't prevent from be under suspicion when you manage to give four different answers to the same question. After a while the man realised there was a greater chance of stupidity than criminality and I could finally leave the airport.
Monday, 6 April 2009
Departure, I'm carried away
After being stuck in Belgium for what seemed an eternity, I finally got the time and opportunity to travel again and see the world. Destination: South-Africa. It had been three years since I last travelled further than just across the country borders, and twice as many years since I last travelled by plane. It felt like I was new at the game arriving at the airport with my passport in hand. But like a teenager on his first day of high school, I was determined not to show .
Steve's memo
I was doubting whether I would continue on the Road to Calgary. I wouldn't abandon the path, but perhaps I shouldn't leave notes lying around. After all it was never my intention to be the fool writing on a white wall. But the next stop is South-Africa, and it might be too good not to share.
Steve send me a memo before I left : "Darling, you're almost leaving . Sadness. Here are a couple of things you shouldn't forget:
- thoughts of me
- two cheap wedding rings if you quickly want to get married
- enough place on the aeroplane if you want to bring your new man along
- a picture of Marijke and Isabelle so you wouldn't forget you're actually gay
- love for everyone"
- two cheap wedding rings if you quickly want to get married
- enough place on the aeroplane if you want to bring your new man along
- a picture of Marijke and Isabelle so you wouldn't forget you're actually gay
- love for everyone"
Monday, 23 March 2009
Dancing with closed eyes
When I first met her she was a diffident girl, the type you had to force not to be impressionable. Then somebody told her she should always dance like nobody's watching. But people always watch as she discovered. So she danced for the limelight and got blinded.
I thought about her today while I was dancing. I was dancing with my eyes closed. It's a dangerous thing to do, but I won't go astray because I'm the type who forces people not be impressionable. I know what it leads to.
Monday, 16 March 2009
The signs didn't deceive
Two old photoalbums were lying on the coffee table in my grandmother’s house. Thumbing through the albums I saw my grandmother in her youth, my father as a toddler dressed up for church and many baby pictures of my youngest uncle. Then I came across the photograph with a grim foretelling sense.
The boy fiddling with the motorcycle is my oldest uncle. Twenty years later he would become a motor mechanic and start a garage. The boy on the motorcycle is my youngest uncle. Twenty years later he would lose his life behind the wheel.
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