It Hit Home Again

The Lessons From The Quiet Year

2015-11-14T05:15:00.001+01:00

What was good in 2009.

What was bad in 2009.

The Prison Structure Destroyed

2015-10-24T22:00:00.000+02:00

There on a bookshelf it was, it still stood there, intact. The prison structure.

A small collection of CD-singles. My yoke of slavery. I never ceased to live in it.

I threw it in the trash tonight. I refused to obey a second longer.

Now all that´s still left to do. is sell two items. For a good price.

A Triumph

2015-10-10T20:48:00.000+02:00

One week ago I returned from Berlin with my father. My mother picked us up at the airport and they brought me home. I entered my flat, and I knew I had beaten both 2005 and 2006 and my old blog.

The loneliness and hurt have been replaced by a unique experience with my father. I made a connection with him like I never did before.

The most essential discovery about our trip was that my thinking was flawed in my teenage years. I made one mistake after the other.

My thinking was flawed in Amsterdam, in Leiden. Between 2010 and 2015, I repeated Leiden.

I can trust God, He will sustain me. Lord, bring me in contact with men of God. To learn and to grow.

Lord, give me Your Spirit. Learn me to trust You. Learn me to obey You, and leave my cocoon.

It Is Done

2015-10-06T23:16:00.000+02:00

25 Years German Unity

2015-10-03T16:57:00.000+02:00

A New Memory

2015-10-03T08:54:00.000+02:00

Sanssouci III

2015-10-02T16:00:00.000+02:00

Sanssouci II

2015-10-02T13:00:00.000+02:00

Sanssouci

2015-10-02T12:00:00.000+02:00

Reichstag

2015-10-01T11:00:00.000+02:00

Potsdamer Platz

2015-09-30T10:30:00.000+02:00

Triumph

2015-09-28T15:00:00.000+02:00

Wiedersehen

2015-09-28T11:30:00.000+02:00

Travelling To Berlin

2015-09-28T08:00:00.000+02:00

Making A Connection

2015-09-27T03:26:00.000+02:00

With God and my fellow men, my family and friends. That is why I have to give to God my cocoon and my cigarette.

Wunderbar II

2015-09-19T19:09:00.000+02:00

Looking forward to a trip with my father to Berlin. Very excited.

From: Gep Hoogendijk <gephoogendijk@gmail.com>
To: Vincent Hoogendijk <vincent.hoogendijk@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 6:15 PM
Subject: Berlijn

Lieve Vincent,

Ik heb de afgelopen week wat 'highlights' van Berlijn bij elkaar gezocht (zie bijlage) die we volgende week wellicht kunnen bekijken. Ik heb er nu al zin in!

Liefs,

Papa

The Day I Thought Would Never Come II

2015-09-18T19:29:00.000+02:00

The Day I Thought Would Never Come

2015-09-02T14:35:00.000+02:00

The end of Pop, with these two CD´s. It ended where it started: The Visitors, crackin´ up.

Everything You Think You Know....

2015-07-22T01:09:00.002+02:00

The Opposite of Addiction is Not Recovery it is “CONNECTION.” I heard this a while back, probably on another Ted Talk. Today a friend of mine who works in Colorado posted another similar talk to his feed. So I went and watched it. One can never get enough of Ted Talks in my opinion. When we were/are out there using, for most of us, we are isolated, and alone. And we engage in soul destroying activities like drinking and drug use. We become, “Disconnected” from ourselves, our families and our friends. A well known psychologist in the U.S. studied this problem, also looking at how the U.S. and other countries punish, shame, incarcerate and disconnect addicts from their lives and others. In Portugal, they decriminalized all drugs and began providing “connections” for them. They got them help, the state actually participates in rehabilitating addicts back into society, wherein they go to a business and say to them … “if you will employ this person, we will pay half their salary.” They are building people up, instead of tearing them down. Punishing, shaming and incarcerating addicts is the wrong approach, as said by those who have studied this problem, Worldwide. Another scientist took lab rats and in one case, put a solitary rat in a cage, with two water bottles. One was regular water, the other water laced with heroin. The lone rat, with no connection or activity, drank the heroin water until it was dead. He placed another rat in a cage with the same two water bottles. But in this cage he added a rat run, with slides, caves and things to do. The second rat, ignored the heroin water, never drinking from that bottle and it stayed clean. He never mentions ways to get sober in his talk. The entire talk was centered around making human connections, for addicts, and just how we can do that for our friends and families. The Human Connection is the most important aspect of our lives, whether we are using drugs and alcohol or not. In today’s day and age, with the prevalence of social media in all its forms, humans are devolving into their smart phones and gaming consoles and music delivery systems and totally disengaging themselves from other human beings.

A Moment Of Surrender

2015-07-08T08:30:00.000+02:00

I bring it to the Cross again. Today.

No matter my personal flaws, there is hope for me. I will become whole again, strong again and connected to the father again.

My old blog represented everything that was wrong me. This time it will be different.

Jesus, hold me and make me whole.

Sunshine In The Rain

2015-07-07T09:30:00.000+02:00

He's Back

2015-07-01T14:00:00.000+02:00

Dreamtime

2015-06-25T10:00:00.000+02:00

Wouter Hamel - The Lights

2015-02-22T21:30:00.000+01:00

Friday, February 6, 2009:

"After 'Hamel', Wouter Hamel released his second album this week, called
'Nobody's Tune'. Very creative arrangements, jazzy, sweet, sensual and
true. A natural crooner. His music has a timeless quality and it's
currently on high rotation on my iPod."

And this song is from February 2014, five years later.

Crossing The Line To 2015

2015-01-01T02:37:00.000+01:00

January 1, 2015

January 1, 2005