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We still want a tree **A stone house, a tree and an animal** is what "Huisje, boompje, beestje" stands for in the Netherlands. All houses are built out of stone, bricks red or yellow. A wooden house is too expensive and so are trees. A country that arose from the sea doesn't come with trees. It's clay that you find in the soil. Black, red or yellow... it depends on where you dig. It's good to make bricks out of it although most brick factories among the riversides are…
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Why do adults behave like bullies? **Does a smile really make up everything?** At school, some children talked about a television program. Adults fool strangers to see how they react. It's no April Fool joke but a reality television show. If the person gets angry they say "Smile, you are on candid camera!" and suddenly that person is no longer mad with them because they are on tv. I think that's weird. Angry is angry and bullying is bullying it's not just joking around if…
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I spat it out *I wrote something. I know readers cannot be found here and perhaps this even makes this platform better. No one really reads you, no one ever gets to know you.* **I spat it out**, the story I mean, and to be honest it felt like a relief. I love stories, tales, to read something different. It might not be the greatest story of all but that's not the point if it comes to freewriting the only thing you need to do is to write! Write while the clock ticks and…
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Eostre, the Goddess is alive **These days we talk a lot about how life has changed.** The coronavirus, a certain type of it, was good enough to lock the world in, to lock most of us inside without much perspective for the future. Some papers say we are all used by the new normal but the demonstrations and increasing number of depressed people tell a different story. It depends on where you live, which stories you like to believe how much the crises we are dragged into by…
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They tried to help me *"****Sir****," Katherine intervened, "we were trying to help my brother."* *The lawyer wasn't very impressed by her words. He sighed and stared at the spot on the wall right above her head. It was a way to make people believe you looked at them without seeing them. The eyes... the mirrors of the soul at the other side of the table were cold. The soul was cold and dead souls weren't his favourite clients. The only reason he showed up was that they had…
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My children aren't troublemakers **My children rarely feel bore**d and if it comes to that I consider myself lucky. Each one of them keeps itself busy. They are busy although we share the same room and do what they like most in silence. Not complete silence but still good enough for all of us to concentrate. At this moment the boiler in the bathroom makes more noise than our family. **What exactly are they doing** and am I checking them out? I know they play games, read,…
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Computers, concerts & children *The world changed long before..*. **Computers** became history to me. I cannot say I miss having one. A computer needs a lot of space which I don't have and I never liked all the dust and wires, wires and cables that easily get dirty and all that is dirty needs to be cleaned. What I dislike about computers too is they get easily broken, are already dated at the moment you buy them and access to the internet is for some reason harder than it is…
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I am sloppy **I can make a long list with all those things I am** at least according to my mother. She's the one who tells me these things. At times she does when she drags me out of bed in the middle of the night or when she yells at me but there are also times she sots calm at the dining table and tells me while she's eating while no one likes me and her life would be better, the world would be a better place if I would be dead. She never says "if you weren't born" or "if…
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Do you suspect anyone? **Detectives**... In films (series) they are totally different from those in real life. Miss Marple for example. An elderly lady who never left the village she lived in. Some might say she is noisy and check-outs everything but no matter what you think of her you better beware. She has all the time to observe, observe people and her mind is always active. According to Agatha Christie Miss Marple is based on her grandmother. The first Miss Marples I saw…
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Carbuncle sounds ugly **I am at my grandmother's home**. It's my grandmother's because grandpa died. My dad brought me and we went by train. I can keep the ticket because I won't go back home. A man-made a tiny hole in it which means we have paid and he saw me. If he really saw me I don't know. He is more interested in tickets. I like the things he has. If you do not have a ticket yet you can buy it in train. As my dad left I brought him to the train station. It isn't that…
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From butter cake to sacrificing to getting rich *A freewrite... Most of the posts I see, those who submit to the community, are not the idea behind a freewrite at not. Not what the community is looking for. Indeed if it's not accepted it's not a freewrite, you did not set a timer.* ____________________________ **My timer today is the egg timer** and with it the butter cake in the oven. I am a lucky mom. My child loves to bake and as long as we have the ingredients it's fine…
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What happens to your children if you die? In my case I mean my children, three of my children. They need to know what to do if they find me dead. As long as I am the one with an income, pay the rent and all costs for living there isn't much to worry about. Of course, we discuss it if my income isn't sufficient and we set priorities together but it's not the same as no income at all because your parent deceased. **Imagine** they find me dead tomorrow. "They" are in this case…
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Knockdown arguments kill *Today I force myself to write this.* **It tires me out to read all those "tips"** about how to improve your life, 7 steps to..., 3 things you should do to... Especially advice meant for the depressed ones, the lonely and depressed ones, the sick and depressed ones, the young and depressed ones, and the lost ones. It might help if you feel what we in the Netherlands call "being down" but not if you are depressed. Depressed, really depressed people do…
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Everyone deserves a second chance *I vaguely remember my father smoked a pipe and my grandfather had cigars but I have no memory if it comes to smokers in our family. The house never smelled after tobacco, there were no full ashtrays and no ashes on the tablecloth. If I think of tobacco I think of the brand aftershave my grandfather used and some cookies I once saw at the bakery shop. Cookies covered with tobacco by a baker who smoked. The bottle of aftershave... It was…
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Imagine the good old days **You say you long** to the good old days? I wonder why because in most cases, those old days weren't that good at all, not good for most people. Those "old days" of a hundreds of years ago I mean. We, the people who live today, didn't exist at that time. Our ancestors did though and they might have not even lived where we live today. They might have not even been our ancestors if you believe the soul is ancient and believe in rebirth. If that is…
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It's too crowded! *What makes you believe childhood is the best period in one's life? To many children, their life is far from a bed of roses and it will always be a struggle to be accepted and heard.* ____________________________ I am in bed and cannot sleep. I wonder if everything would be different if people, adults and my parents above all of them listened to me? If I had the opportunity to reply, defend myself? I don't think so. If no one wants you, is interested in you…
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Read.cash is a database by now **Is it worth writing**, still worth posting on read.cash? The question isn't that easy to answer because we, those who have an account, are not the same. For me, it still is because I like to write and I want to post somewhere, on a platform I like. I do not perse need to socialize. Most social media aren't the right places for me. I do not feel comfortable, don't know how to socialize, how to gossip or make friends. In the far past, I started…
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A new nation out of free will, love **Are people willing to work together?** It's hard to tell. Wars are fought, we love to bully and dictate others and even within our family it's hard to live in harmony, to respect our child, sibling or aunt for who s/he is. We want it our way and that's the main reason why a union, the EU, is doing as great as she pretends. If you go for the "together we are strong" you need to make that clear, be able to show the benefits. Not in ten or…
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9 a.m. my day is over **It was 9 a.m**. as I told my children my day is over. At that time I did what I had to do, most of it. Yesterday was a bad day for me. One filled with dizziness and the tiredness I feel is endless. I cannot fight it so the only thing left is to give in to it and lose consciousness again. It all didn't work as expected. A painful ear, the cold makes it hard to drift away plus I can not lay on my side. Each time I try my nose closes and I cannot…
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Spare time? *I read an article with the question "How do you spend your spare time". In this case, the author was gardening, more specific growing cucumbers.* If you ask me what I do in my spare time I can only say "I have no spare time, never had any spare time". For the same reason, I do not have spare time I am never bored. My entire life I have been working. Gardening isn't something I do in my spare time but something I need to do, it's work. To me, it is work just like…
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Happy birthday your highness **The king...** he is not popular I read in today's newspaper. A photo of a man who could use a shower was shown. This is the king? It is and he's a man who never seems to care about his weight, being overweighted or his looks. For sure he isn't the Prince Charming Disney shows us or we had in mind hearing a fairy tale. What happened to those young, handsome princes girls dreamed about and loved to get married to? The one on the photo has no…
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Broke lawnmower *What a day*. **I went outside to mow the lawn**. The grass and weeds grow faster than I can cut it even without rain. (I should say weeds only since grass is hard to find) It's annoying because I started in time this year which is half of March. The youngest mowed a piece yesterday which helped since I was fighting the higher weeds by swinging a grass trimmer. If it comes to grass... Those parts where it grows faster and is higher are a different species,…
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The promising land is utopian *My mind follows it's own way. Better don't ask what I intend to write. I'll give it a new try tomorrow.* ___________________________________ *How come it's so hard to say in simple words what we mean? How come we need so many words to explain our feelings, we have so many words and are still misunderstood?* **Life isn't easy, not fair** and the grass might look greener if you peep through the fence and watch your neighbour's but it's not if you…
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So you said before **You feel hurt if you are interrupted** by someone who says "so you said before"? I frequently thought it but these days I dare to say it since I noticed my daughter does and... it doesn't seem to harm. At least not if it's said to the siblings and friends. So slowly I changed into someone who says it too, once in a while but I do. I no longer see any point in listening to the same old story over and over again at those rare times I can sit and want to…
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I'm sane The elephant (at the bird's nest) Those tremors I have although I wear my vest aren't caused by the elephant who landed at the bird's nest like your diagnosis want me to believe. You think I'm weak and long for your treatment but I guarantee I'm not the crybaby you like me to be which would make you feel better about yourself. I know how you need people to depend on you. You believe you cure the world and brag about your skills. Those special treatments like green…