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
Struiken gespiegeld in het raam van een openslaande deur. Onherkenbaar, maar toch met de camera vast gelegd. Bijna een boekbespreking. Zie ook mijn rubriek boekbesprekingen. Alle beginnen ze met een of meer foto's om de stemming en de toon te vinden.
THE STORY OF A YOUNG SWALLOW LOST IN MY STILL SLEEPING HOUSE.
SEVEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING. JUST THE NIGHT WINDOW OPEN. A SOUND. I WAKE UP. A YOUNG SWALLOW FLIES AROUND AND HIDES IN THE STUDY BEHIND THE CURTAINS. I LOOK FOR MY CAMERA. AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS:
The feeling of imprisonment or the flight to freedom. Being a prisoner or on its way to freedom outdoors? Or how the young swallow shows its feathery confusion. And finally the sublime victory of sitting outside on the handle of the open window! Superiority of being.
