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The Cat In The Bag - 40
In the same way, when I had joined kindergarten later on, I would be with children of the age of 5. And I would draw my house and say:...
May 6, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 39
Auroville is a never ending research project. Discovering new horizons: would we be granted this opportunity? Would we succeed? It was...
May 6, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 38
The monsoon didn't bother us much. Even though once we had almost non-stop rain for 14 days. On those days you could get lost on your own...
May 5, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 37
And when the gas stove came, I didn't even need it anymore, it had become a pleasure to cook this way. And I had noticed that cooking on...
May 5, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 36
But one day a group of Tamils came to work for us. And I needed to make tea for them. They saw me struggling with the stove, and their...
May 4, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 35
Are people still using these little Tamil stoves nowadays? It was made of clay, fired clay, in fact it was quite beautiful. But to cook...
May 4, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 34
Language has always been my biggest stumbling block when dealing with my fellow men. At my work I would regularly get the comment that I...
May 3, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 33
One of the pioneers told me: “I married a Tamil girl because they pamper you and don't ask questions. She does what I want.” I...
May 3, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 32
That day, while we were doing our “rodeo”, we could see that, on the tar road, two bullock carts were preparing to turn onto the slope....
May 2, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 31
If these people don't get what they want, they play the victim and start blaming you for being an aggressor. It's a very clear pattern,...
May 2, 20221 min read
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Aurovillage 34
In episode 25 B I briefly touched on the notion that so so so many people believe: “no light without darkness”. To understand the seismic...
May 1, 20225 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 30
We put a lot of our own money into Auroville and the local population. I am personally not against money, as long as it is not abused to...
Apr 30, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 29
I myself never got a contract with the development aid NGO. I was a certified nurse, so if I wanted a contract, I had to go work in the...
Apr 30, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 28
And I have the feeling that the world will not quickly hand out money to Auroville. While I think that Auroville is a form of...
Apr 29, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 27
But I regret using the word hypocrisy. I said it probably because we had to suddenly say things by the book. What we did wasn't totally...
Apr 29, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 26
I want to briefly touch upon the hypocrisy in the Swiss camp. What I certainly couldn't stomach was the way we were treated because of...
Apr 28, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 25
We were also disliked by other Aurovilians when we told that we were from Switzerland. While most nationalities grouped together, but we...
Apr 28, 20221 min read
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Aurovillage 33
The truth will come out, there is nothing that the cult can do to stop this collapse. For this episode, I share the full letter that the...
Apr 27, 202212 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 24
Ine's father was an eccentric man, but he had great knowledge of plants and trees. About all the trees that had been planted were put...
Apr 27, 20221 min read
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The Cat In The Bag - 23
One day our Micha would ask: “Mum, why are we here?” After all, she had had to leave all her friends and family behind while it hadn't...
Apr 27, 20221 min read
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