Values

It won't be long before being a Muslim is considered a crime in itself. So I'm glad I'm not a muslim although I hold the same believes. As Muslims. As Christians. As Budhists. As Mormons. As Jehova's...You know: respect all life, honour your parents, don't steal or lie, etcetera. So why do so many people claim their believe is superior to others? It may diver on some points but basically we all believe in the same basic values. So let's stop talking about "Afro-Americans", "Jews", "Polaks", "Men", "Immigrants" and so on and start talking about others as if they were regular human beings like you and me...Or at least try. How hard can it be?

Summer Holiday

What do Jean Luc Picard, Michael Myers, Mary Poppins and Oprah Winfrey have in common? People dressed to look like these (and many, many more!) characters were at the party I had the pleasure to work at, last night: Fucques les Balles by Erwin Olaf en de meubelstukken at NDSM-werf, Amsterdam.

Amongst the people attending was my boss at The Amsterdam Dungeon. Let's find out if the fact he saw me doing the can can in a pink tutu affects the contract-renewal talks coming monday...

Had a great summer holiday with my son: we went to see the baseball game Cuba vs. The Netherlands (and we won!), we went to a science museum, saw the classical circus of Circus Renz and saw the perfect copoeration of light, sound, costumes and entertainment department from Cirque du Soleil. We spend a week in the dunes at summercamp and I got to spend a weekend one on one with my daughter when my son was at Vlieland, one of the isles, with a friend of his. We changed a few things in and around the house and Ferdinand picked p two new hobbies: playing Magic: the gathering an folding paper airplanes.

Vulgar

Britons see US as vulgar empire builder. Well, I don't blame them, judging by the stories that come to my attention.

Some are good, of course. Like this one: Finale the Americans are doing a really good deed: they are sending rice to the Middle East. At least: that's what I heard on the radio today.

One of the other stories I hear is that several people are staying in American prisons while being innocent and more than once evidence that can prove their innocence "disappears".

Speaking of innocencen: don't you just love the innocence of young children? Take mine for example. Today they joined me in a visit of my daycarecentre-nanny (if that't the word...). I hadn't seen her in over thirty years but it seemed less than a decade...;-)

Tomorrw is the introduction-day of this years summercamp for the volunteers and since I'll be one of them and I can't leave Eva en Ferdinandn home alone we'll spend best of the day in the dunes near Haarlem. Should be fun.