inspiration

It has been such a long time since I did write on my blog. Shame on me, but....I simply couldn't get inspired. And at the same time so much has been going on, since my last stay in the US.
Life has been like a cup filled to the rim. I hope that is proper English.

First of all there were all these travels my son and d.i.l made to Europe. "D'abord Paris", where they had a blast, then all of a sudden this cruise onto the Baltic sea; the cruise was something"extra' for all the good work that had been done by Nishat and for which she and here colleagues got rewarded in Stockholm, at the same venue where the Nobel prices are "given" each year. Can you believe it?

I myself went back to my humble abode here in the Netherlands and had to get used to being on my own again, after being 9 weeks with my loved ones around me. Not easy, but it feels like I'm getting there....

Another thing is finding a way to be still friends with a dear friend, whom i had met last year through the internet and with whom I had high hopes for the future.
Very difficult to find another partner in your life with whom to share the days again. Gone my naivety of the 18 year old girl I once was, and who was happy with the thought alone of always living together with some-one. How I loved that , and how I make a real problem of it now, with my " backpack fully stuffed with all the aspect of the life I lived". In stead of having grown wiser I feel like having lost that "simplicity".

In the meantime I picked up hiking, something I found to be a very nice pastime: meeting "new" people, having conversations, - or not, sometimes even better!- and enjoying nature and the walking at the same time. Quite often we have afterwards a drink or a little thing to eat with each other and those are the very nice "added extra values".
But to sit down quietly and be inspired to write something on this blog? I think the blog became something like " a block"- writersblock_?

On the other hand I have no idea whatsoever who is/are reading my blog? Maybe nobody, apart from my family that is. And then again, maybe there's somebody "out there" who starts reading this blog like I happened to be reading a blog of a 22 year old female Canadian law student, who was crying out loud "what the heck life was for"...
The blog was in French, and since I happen to love that language, I read and read and...decided to write her back in her language. Good exercise for me and hopefully a little help for her. Who knows?
Like that the "knife" as we put it in our language-" cuts on two sides". And that is a big thing about the internet: it inspires so many people, and as long as we inspire each other the right way there is a lot of "gain" in it.

Dag,dag the horserider
;-))