Adventures with Lida

 NL World Cup Semi-finals.  Van Gogh Museum Renovation.  Visiting some dear friends.

 Ellie decorated the windows of her home for the school children who passed by on their way to and from school.  She never stopped teaching the importance of love and inclusion.  Such a beautiful woman.  She is a role model!

I was lucky to visit Lida's mother and see where Lida grew up, in 1998. We visited a house where Lida's family had lived. I think Lida and her sisters grew up there. We visited her mother in Hoojeveen. At that point she was in a nursing home. The mural behind Lida and her Mother show the countryside, famous for peat farming. I think Lida told me that her father had been a peat farmer. Lida with her mother and sister Lini (or Jackie?). 1998.

 A subdued evening...1998 on my world trip? or 2001 after 9/11? AT Lida's Rustenburgerstraat flat. You can see my art on the wall behind us. It's an etching about the effect holocaust images had on me. Lida has always had a soft spot for refugees and most of her work (especially before Zen) had been to help them find resources in Amsterdam. When I visited her, we would often eat middle eastern food, she had a lot of middle eastern friends... and her apartment was in a predominantly middle eastern neighborhood. 

Travel. Headshaving. Tokudo. Family.