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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

14 december 2011

Red Socks


Does it matter if Epicurus wears red socks? It's not a historical question nor a  matter of sports. Are the socks made of wool? Is it a question for these sheep?  Philosophy concerns unanswerable questions. So, this is a philosophical question?

11 december 2011

A Biography of Friendship

The bicycle of my Aunt

My aunt loved her bicycle and the bicycle loved my aunt. They were a couple on wheels for years. Friendship was her front wheel, common sense the second wheel. A Greek philosopher, Epicurus was her invisible guide. Read the story 'a daughter of Epicurus' ( in dutch), buy in Europe through www. amazon.de