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The wave

September 26, 2015

Dear Wout,

You will be missed yet always remain present. All my love to your dearest, Ellen, Liliane and Isabelle.

Here's a poem from David Whyte who knows the words like no one else.

Esther 

THE WAVE

You arrived as a ripple of change emanating 
from an original, unstoppable,
memory, a then made now,
entirely yourself, found now in the world, 
now as creator of that world,
you were a signature written in sand 
taken by the ocean and scattered
to another wave form, your disappearance 
only made more beautiful
by the everyday arrival of a tide
where my voice can still join yours, 
hungering for the fall of water,
so that walking the reflected sand,
I set myself to learn by your going, 
knowing across death’s wide ocean,
the ultimate parallel to friendship.

...

THE WAVE
From Pilgrim: Poems by David Whyte

One Heart

September 23, 2015

My grandson used to sign all his facebook posts with "One Love".

Often that reminded me of my first casual meet with Wouter, when my grandson still was on primary school and FB was yet to be invented. 

Ye know how it can be with men, young and old:

they meet, 
breath out, 
take a deep breath, 
start breathing together, 
their hearts start beating together, 
one heart, 
one love.    

That's the kind of man Wouter was. 

September 15, 2015

Wouter, or "Wout" as he called himself back when we met, was one of the People when I joined Baker he strode right up to me with a big smile. He then asked a lot of questions,  made some jokes about the portuguese... basically treated me casually and with warmth. And every time I saw him in the corridor or at lunch in the 10 months that followed he was smiling or laughing. So it doesn't matter we never got to know each other too well. I liked what I saw and send my heartfelt condolences to all who were lucky enough to be close to him and his infectious good humour.

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