Dutch scouting camp site Gilwell Ada's Hoeve in Ommen, Overijssel, Netherlands
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Jordan Ver Hoeve by Joseph Lally
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i think about brooke eby, a 30-something woman on tiktok who makes videos about her ALS diagnosis, and how she’s just one of countless young people worldwide who is dealing with the most shit hand you can possibly get. i think about my aunt, who died in her early 50s from frontotemporal dementia and left behind my uncle and my two young cousins. how can you see others around you who, through cruel twists of fate or from awful systemic issues, don’t reach 50, 60, 70 years of age, and somehow deduce that the phrase “aging is a gift” is insensitive or not truthful?
i so desperately want my 95-year-old grandmother to die with dignity. i think that her life has been artificially extended longer than what it should have been in terms of being able to sustain a decent baseline quality of life. but my grandmother, who has always been afraid of death, has chosen to live the way she’s living - as is her right - and she will likely die in a difficult, traumatic way. i know her and i know my family, as much as i would like to be pleasantly surprised to the contrary. but in no way does the sad state of my grandmother’s life take away from the fact that she lived at least 75 full years, a gift given to very few people.
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143. Het bruidspaar heeft na de ceremonie nog een mooi nieuwtje
Op 15 februari 2023 word ik gevraagd om het huwelijk van Joep en Mirjam te bevestigen. Ik ben vereerd dat ze mij hebben gekozen als hun trouwambtenaar. Ik krijg een mailtje van hen, waarin ze vragen of ik beschikbaar ben op 20 oktober 2023. Ik kijk in mijn agenda en zie dat ik die dag nog vrij ben. Ik zeg ja, maar ik weet niet waar en hoe laat het huwelijk is. Die informatie staat niet in de…
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