Month: March 2014

Jonas´post -squat smoothie

Pretty much on a daily basis I make smoothies from whatever I have at home, taking care to use enough proteins and heart healthy fats in the form of nuts, seeds, flaxseed oil, avocado as well as healthy carbohydrates in the form of berries, fruit and for the green smoothies also veggies. To most of them I also add some “superfood powders” like chlorella, spirulina, acai, maca, rosehip and/ or some cacao nibs. Plus some protein powder sourced from either rice, soy, pea or hemp. And to be honest most of my mixes look and taste like crap. But like with everything in life, if you don´t practice and keep trying things out you´ll never get there or even anywhere . So, to my surprise, there was one which was actually good a few days ago! There is nothing in the whole world that can make me miss my weekly Trojan Workout sessions I follow at Trainingscentrum Helena in Haarlem, and I knew I had a crazy busy day ahead of me where I first …

Past Lovers

Yesterday, in our monthly Writer´s Circle in den Haag, Kathy gave us a subject to write about that first made me cringe. It did that because a lot of things had to come out or be “written out” during this very time in my life, with the daily letting go of this place to move to the next place thousands of kilometres away from here. So thank you Kathy for making us write things out of our system! Here is my piece: When does a Love become a Past Love? This very moment, as the present takes over? Is past love, lost love? Can you love somebody more and love somebody less? Is there a less less or a less intense, a more less , or a more intense? Whatever it is, at this moment it hurts. It hurts because I find myself loving not just people, but moments with people. Past Loves, Past Lovers – what is the difference? When does Love turn into a Lover? When you Love, are you not a Lover …