For many years, I didn’t take off my shoes when simply going for a stroll on the beach. You know, one of those days when you don’t go sunbathing but you want to be close to the ocean. “I’ll get sand in my socks,” I would think. “I’ll have to take off my shoes, wipe…
When people disappear from our lives, it’s considered normal to grieve. Perhaps not for as long as we need, and perhaps not as intensely as we sometimes do, but we accept that with the loss of a person – whatever shape that loss takes – comes grief. Less normalized or talked about is the grief…
I found the poem below as I was going through old journal entries. While I only started writing for personal reasons more frequently a few months later, I like the idea that Inspiration had already announced itself. I wrote this poem initially in Dutch, then translated it to English to be able to share it…