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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

18 november 2011

Edgar Allan Poe, the Raven

If, yeah IF

If  Poe

would have known

the Curacao Oriole

he would have written

another poem?

he doesn't know

12 november 2011

marble bust of the Greek philosopher Epicurus

Epicurus

The Greek philosopher of common sense. He inspired me to write memories of my aunt and her time entitled A Daughter of Epicurus. The booklet shows a distinctive woman  and  changing daily life in the Netherlands, in the second half of the twentieth century
De Griekse filosoof van het gezond verstand.  Hij inspireerde me tot het schrijven van herinneringen aan mijn tante en haar tijd onder de titel Een dochter van Epicurus. Het boekje  geeft een beeld van deze vrouw en het Nederland uit de tweede helft van de twintigste eeuw.