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Reflections from the eight decade on culture, politics and the human condition

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Europe’s Drifting Tanker: Between Aspiration and Inertia

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 21, 2025January 8, 2026
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📖 The Black Knight of Muscovy ⚔️

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 18, 2025
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

🎻Violins, 🌹Roses, and Butterflies🐚

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 16, 2025
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

The Internet and Humanity: Between Promise and Peril

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 14, 2025January 11, 2026
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📖 The Wolf Who Called for Votes 🐺

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 11, 2025
Sunrise over a quiet Dutch landscape with warm morning light on a wooden table, an open notebook, and a glass of wine — a tranquil scene of reflection and gratitude.
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

🎂The Year I Would Re-Live

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 9, 2025January 10, 2026
  • Democracy, Society, and Responsibility

The Silence At Margraten

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 7, 2025January 10, 2026
The Leaking Roof of Europe
  • Power, Order, and the World

The Leaking Roof of Global Europe

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 7, 2025January 8, 2026
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📖 The Sleeping Beauty of Bruxelles 🏰

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 4, 2025
  • Democracy, Society, and Responsibility

D66 and the Cost of Compromise

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 3, 2025January 10, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

The Silent Gift

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 2, 2025January 2, 2026
A symbolic image merging a 17th-century European map with soft nuclear motifs, evoking Westphalia’s legacy and the fragility of peace.
  • Power, Order, and the World

Westphalia in the Atomic Age

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on October 31, 2025November 9, 2025

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Summary: Reflections from the eighth decade — on life, culture, and the state of the world. This blog offers quiet observations, drawn from a lifetime of watching, questioning, and remembering. The sun lowers, but still gives light.

Quote of the week: From Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) writer, activist, and noble prize winner and most relevant to the meaning of this quote, a holocaust survivor.

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