If you want to be happy for an hour
… do a little nap.

If you want to be happy for a day
… go fishing.

If you want to be happy for a week
… take a vacation.

If you want to be happy for a month
… win a jackpot.

If you want to be happy for a year
… get married.

If you want to be happy for a lifetime,
mean something to the other.

(source unknown)

Tell me
and I forget.

Write me
and I remember.

Let me join in
and I understand

- Confucius

Nature excellents to show she’s an image of God and it defects to show she’s merely an image.

- Blaise Pascal

Photo’s of the ‘Millingerwaard’ and the ‘Millinger’-teagarden (Netherlands, north east of Nijmegen):

A Love Poem

- K. Schippers

Pseud. of Gerard Stigter (1936)

translation by Bart Hoogendijk