East Timor

Remember the Balibo 5 and Roger East

I saw a movie about it, Balibo. 1975 It was that Indonesia invaded the colony of Portugal. In fact Portugal left it alone. Only in 2002 it became independent. José Ramos Horta became a leader in the seventies and became President in 2006.

It was a movie with a certain impact. I wasn´t aware of what happened there. So little news is leaking to my part of the world about what´happens there today that I don´t know what happened there in history or the recent past.

Marathon

Next week's marathon is open for foreign athletes who run for the money.
If there will be a foreign winner a Dutch company with African business connections will pay the price if the winner is a foreigner.
Still the Utrecht marathon stinks this year.

Moonshadow

Does the word sun-shadow exist? If it does then the moonshadow will exist too.
Tonight it's half moon and when I stood in the moonlight I saw a large shade of the wall over my balcony. I thought that it must be wet there. I touched the floor and it was dry. Then I realized that it was the shade of the moon making the floor darker.

Tomorrow, April 12 2011 it's 50 years ago, Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space.

city marathon

In my city a marathon has been organized annually.
This year only inhabitants of the Netherlands can practically register to run.
The organizers are fed up with every year a fast runner from abroad. They want a Dutch Marathon Battle to boost Dutch road athletics.
In my opinion this is really narrow minded. This introspective is so undutch. It's a Utrecht NSB-marathon, free from foreign influences. These are the days of Nazi-Germany.

Fisherman

The Dutch marine saved a Iranian fishing boat -a strong fisherman´s friend- This is called protection. In fact it´s a war. In this action 2 Somali´s died.

Birds in my hometown.

Quicksand

Everything can be said of Christianity but the resilience of that faith is enormous.
You can say everything about the god of the Christians, about their Jesus Christ and his prophets.
John Cleese, Monty Python's Life of Brian

is an example of satire about the Jesus of Nazareth. Prophets like St. Paul are checked and criticized.
Wasn't he a henchman of the Romans?

Burning the bible is to much honour for this book of controversy.

Any book burned is one to much. Burning the bible won't solve anything but criticizing their believe and examining the wandering of it's prophets is the best we can do.
Be aware of the resilience of quicksand.