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My energetic life journey with Reiki so far

Behind our house there is a magic gateway that leads to a public park. In this park there is a climbing structure for children, that everybody calls “de Spin” (tr. from Dutch: “the Spider”). Around this climbing structure there is a circle of low stones and, outside of that circle, another circle exists partly made out… Read more »

My partner’s depression was a growth opportunity for our family

Daniele and I met when we were 19, we lived in different countries and the internet was not commercially spread, we wrote letters for a while but then lost contact. When we got back in touch I was ending a bad relationship where I was not loved but which gave me a beautiful son, and… Read more »

Why I stopped using margarine…

While growing up I was told that butter was bad for you, it would cause you heart problems and high cholesterol. That is what the television said, that is what the doctors said, that what they told me in school. I believed them…. Then I slowly started to get sick, and with one of the… Read more »

Thankful

Time to finally update this blog. A lot has happened since the last time I wrote here. We moved, to the United States, we bought a lovely home, with a wonderful back yard. The kids are doing great at their schools. More about that in later posts. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in America, it is… Read more »

Creativity

Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. Creativity is fuelled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight. An alternative conception of creativeness (based on its etymology) is that it is simply the act… Read more »

It has been a busy year and a half

Since I last wrote here, a lot has happened. Some good some bad. Life in the end is good. Lets see if I can keep this a bit more up to date and post a bit more things that are going on in my life. But I do not make any promises. One of the… Read more »

Melanzane al funghetto

I love simplicity, specially when I am cooking our daily dinner I love things things that are healthy but do not require hours of preparing. This dish we eat often when the melanzane’s or eggplant are cheap. I use about 2 melanzane’s about 4 tablespoons of oil, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 cans of peeled… Read more »

Peach and Amaretto Semifreddo

My creation for desert on christmas dinner. Ingredients for 6 persons 1 big can of peaches 750 grams of marscapone 150 grams of sugar 100 ml milk or cream (i used milk) 50 grams of amaretti crushed Mix de marscapone with the milk and sugar untill it is smooth. Cut all but 2 halves of… Read more »

Banana / Chocolate Muffin

Originally uploaded by Daniele Muscetta Found the recipe on the internet, adjusted it a little bit because did not have all the ingredients in the house. They turned out pretty good, and are very easy to make. Ingredients: 3 banana’s smashed 150 ml sun flower oil 1 egg 100 gr of sugar 1 tablespoon of… Read more »

What do you feel?

This pendant was given to me by a shaman artist when I was about 17 years old. It happened like this. Me and my parents where walking on a alternative market where different stalls where offering their services. There was the tarot reading, Reiki etc etc. There was also this little stall full with beautiful… Read more »

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February 7, 2007

Having more time for myself now both the boys are going to school. I am trying out new stuff and a starting this new blog/site. Where instead of talking about Italy and my life in it, because to be honest apart from some things it is not that much different then my life before or… Read more »

Tiramisu alla fragole

August 31, 2006

This is one of our favorites when there are fresh strawberries available. Ingredients 500 gr of mascarpone 200 ml cream 150 gr sugar 500 gr strawberries washed and cut in half a pack of savoiardi 2 cups of coffee a glass bakingdish First you mix the mascarpone with the cream and the sugar untill smooth…. Read more »