Den Haag living

"You don't find yourself, you create yourself."

12.22.2009

To say living abroad in Den Haag, Netherlands was living "the good life", is an understatement at best. It is an experience had that can be explained in a plethora of words, but more ideally expressed by what our hearts and souls absorbed through our senses. Life rushed in and brought these enigmatical freedoms and fates that our minds could only fathom in humble doses. I was blessed enough to encounter some of the most amazing people that helped pave the way to inspiration. Sharing this reality of a dream with each other has formulated an unspoken understanding and connection between us to last a lifetime.
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” - Pat Conroy

Words alone to not do justice to our experiences and sought out worldliness, therefore, they are illustrated through music and lyrics, photographs, quotes, random thoughts, and humor.

Den Haag

"Not all those who wander are lost" - J. R. R. Tolkien

A playlist of songs was created to capture the tone.

"Aqueous Transmission", by Incubus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JFyo2mFqEs

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
" Den Haag

Den Haag

Lyrics- "Float on" by Modest Mouse"And we'll all float on ok, and we'll float anyway."
"Well we'll float on, good news is on the way."
"Alright don't worry, even if things end up a bit too heavy, we'll all float on.."

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Tram stop, Centraal Station

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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." -Buddha
Home cooking

Home cooking

Jinny and Natalia

Jennifer's room

Meladi, Jinny, Jennifer, Aaron feeding each other pie

Imagination Rocks

Den Haag

Street art

Jinny

Fun lights

fun on the tram

ball chin

This stove top

But do not ask me where I am heading,
As I travel in this limitless world
Where every step I take is my home
~ Portion of a Poem by Eihei Dogen ~

Den Haag

Jennifer, Natalia, Carolina, Jinny, Michel

Natalia, Jennifer, Jinny, club 1-4

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View from my bedroom

Den Haag sunrise from my bedroom

Den Haag, from our apt window

Den Haag

The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.
~ Lama Anagarika Govinda

Jennifer in the shoe