Mr.Cools' Planet - Welkom! Welcome!
Traveling and Writing
This website is about traveling and writing. Being on the move and being emotionally moved. Two different but interconnected things. Spotting places and losing your heart. Temples, pyramids, cities and ruins, forests and mountains, valleys and rivers, volcanoes and lakes, daily life in the streets, the world as habitat for writing.
Read on: In the year 2000
The Author
Derk Cools was born in 1939 in Den Haag / The Haque, the Netherlands. He got his degree in social geography and economics at the University of Utrecht(1958). As a civil servant with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, he developed expertise in regional (economic) planning at home and abroad. In 1994, he retired and moved to the Netherlands Antilles, the island of Curacao. Read on: Since 1995, he traveled
A judge should know the law but respect life. Hanging a woman - oh miserable mind.
Disgusting cowards, those Iranian judges.
Old Song
Human rights in West-Papua: balance between obedience and justice?
In Arabic countries, democracy is a forbidden fruit. But hear, a fruitseller sets a new tone. In all palaces, the sound will reverberate.
Why do we believe that standing on one leg is a matter of balance or meditation? Because we are not a goose.
Read the Issa haiku
the newly arrived goose
lifts one leg...
deep meditation
Issa, 1817
Diplomacy and Duty
Who are those diplomats and their secrets? What is their duty: to classify documents or to qualify for the job? Secrets are black spots. They are a permanent 'state of denial.'
