exercises in being here

This is a safe haven for thoughts, ideas, images, try-outs, all the things that don't fit in my other blogs, the ones that are about specific projects.

12.1.17

Presence presents

We are still in the simple present tense only. When we try to talk about the past or the future we make mistakes. We learn that there is m...

11.1.17

Miedo y felicidad. Fear and happiness.

Yesterday in Spanish class we did an exercise with names of famous people. We had to say if we knew them, who they were, if we liked what ...

Adding to my vocabulary in the simple present tense

I learned - or sometimes only tried to - learn a lot of languages in the last 44 years. I don’t remember being taught my first one and I hav...

10.1.17

Trying to get blue blood

9.1.17

In the beginning

First Spanish lesson today. Me llamo Monique. But I knew that already. The teacher advised us to keep our iPhones on the table to look up ...

2.1.17

The old and the new

“I hope 2017 will bring you beautiful things” I wrote to a friend on the first evening of the new year and he answered “2017 will be w...

31.12.16

Catching the last light of 2016

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