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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
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
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21 april 2012
Congo
Vandaag luisterde ik naar een voordracht van David van Reybrouck over zijn boek Congo, een geschiedenis. Ineens begreep ik de dekolonisatie in de wereld ooit als ont-europeanisering te hebben ervaren. Na de onafhankelijkheid werd Congo een groot vlot drijvend op de wereldzee, speelbal van grootmachten en de globalisering. Op verzoek sloot de schrijver zijn voordracht af met het gedicht West Vlaanderen van Hugo Claus, waarvan hier de youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=5px_iISxZ5Y&feature=related
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where? globalization |
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