VICKI & DON FROM HOME IS WHERE TO HEART IS: IN ROTTERDAM. KLEIWEG 170A 3051SJ ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

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1 VICKI & DON FROM HOME IS WHERE TO HEART IS: IN ROTTERDAM. KLEIWEG 170A 3051SJ ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS DAILY DATA REPORT: VOLUME 2018, EDITION - JUNE DATA FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27TH, 2018 THROUGH THURSDAY, JUNE 28TH, 2018 THOUGHTS OF ANDRE GIDE MAN CANNOT DISCOVER NEW OCEANS UNLESS HE HAS THE COURAGE TO LOSE THE SIGHT OF LAND. THOUGHTS OF MARK TWAIN Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. 1 PAGE So throw off the bowlines.sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.

2 WEDNESDAY JUNE 27TH FROM HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS: IN ROTTERDAM. MONIQUE S LOVELY STUDIO (AIRBNB) ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS THE PLAN OF THE DAY: RECOVER FROM TRIP TO ANTWERPEN, WORK EPISTLES AND RESTING.. (NO PHOTOS) I NEVER EVEN LEFT THE HOUSE.. VICKI DID WASHING AND WENT TO SHOP THURSDAY JUNE 28TH FROM HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS: IN ROTTERDAM. MONIQUE S LOVELY STUDIO (AIRBNB) ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS THE PLAN OF THE DAY: WENT TO THE HAGUE WTH ANGELO. APPLE STORE VISIT, WE MET ANGELO AT THE ESCHER MUSEUM.. 2 PAGE

3 OUR WHOLE VISION WAS TO RIDE WITH ANGELO AS HE WENT TO WORK IN THE HAGUE.. WE WOULD GO TO THE APPLE STORE WHEN IT OPENED TO ASK QUESTIONS. THEN VICKI AND I WOULD TAKE A WALK AROUND TO SEE WHAT WE COULD SEE.. 3 PAGE

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12 AS YOU CAN TELL.. THE APPLE STORE IN THE HAGUE IS A DESTINATION MECCA BY IT- SELF. I GOT MY QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY THIS YOUNG MAN, JONATHAN.. IT WAS A GOOD VISIT. BOTTOM LINE IS: I AM SMARTER THAN I THOUGHT. ALL IS WELL! ON TO OUR NEXT DESTINATION! 12 PAGE

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15 THE FEAST OF THE GODS AT THE WEDDING OF PELEUS AND THETIS (1638) BY ABRAHAM BLOEMAERT 15 PAGE

16 PORTRAIT OF A MAN (1634) BY FRANS HALS OF HAARLEM 16 PAGE

17 DOUBLE PORTRAIT OF FREDERIK HENDRIK & AMALIA OF SOLMS (1638) BY GERRIT VAN HONTHORST OF UTRECHT 17 PAGE

18 THE DEER HUNT (1625 S) BY PAUL DE VOS (LANDSCAPE) & BY JAN WILDENS (THE ANIMALS) 18 PAGE

19 BALLROOM SCENE AT A COURT IN BRUSSELS (1610) BY FRANS FRANCKEN II (ALL THE PEOPLE) & PAUL VREDEMAN DE VRIES (THE BALLROOM AREA ) 19 PAGE

20 AS THE OLD SING, SO TWITTER THE YOUNG (1664) BY JAN STEEN OF LEIDEN 20 PAGE

21 BUST OF STADHOLDER WILLIAM V (1782) BY MARIE-ANNE FALCONET 21 PAGE

22 BUST OF PRINCESS FREDERIKA SOPHIA WILHELMINA (1782) BY MARIE-ANNE FALCONET 22 PAGE

23 PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN (1625) BY PETER PAUL RUBENS 23 PAGE

24 PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN (1620) BY PETER PAUL RUBENS 24 PAGE

25 A PERSPECTIVE WITH A WOMAN READING A LETTER (1665) BY SAMUEL VAN HOOGETRATEN OF DORDRECHT 25 PAGE

26 THE VIEW OF THE POND OUT OF A WINDOW OF THE ROOM. IT SHOULD BE NOTED: THIS WHOLE MUSEUM WAS IN ONE VERY LARGE ROOM. (SEE THE PHOTO BELOW.) SEVERAL GREAT PIECES FROM THIS COLLECTION WERE RELOCATED YEARS AGO TO THE MAURITSHUIS MUSEUM WHICH WE HAVE VISITED, TOO.. THIS WAS A VERY GOOD VISIT.. 26 PAGE

27 WE HAD A SUBWAY SANDWICH. THEN OFF TO OUR NEXT DESTINATION, RIGHT PAST THIS WONDERFUL POND 27 PAGE

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30 FICTION AND FACT FROM DON ALLENS S ALMANAC BALMAMA S GERANIUMS OUR GRANDMOTHER PHILLIPS OR BALMAMA : AS WE ALL CALLED HER.. LIVED HER LIFE AROUND TWO DIFFERENT FLOWERS WHICH SHE PASSED ON TO ME..ONE IS THE LOVE OF HOLLYHOCKS AND THE OTHER IS HER CONSTANT REMINDER TO ME OF HER LOVE AND CARE OF THE GERANIUMS. I MUST SAY, EVERY TIME I PASS ANY GERANIUMS: I THINK OF BALMAMA. I THINK OF HOW SHE WOULD LOVE SEEING THEM BLOOM THIS BIG.. I HAVE THOUGHT OF HER OFTEN ON THIS TRIP. THIS MORNING, IN THE HAGUE, I HAD A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE. THE TYPE THAT YOU CAN NEVER DREAM WOULD HAPPEN AND ONE THAT COULD NEVER BE PLANNED TO HAPPEN. VICKI AND I CAME UP ON WHAT I CALL A GERANIUM TREE. I WAS SHOCKED AND AWED! I LOST MY BREATH! I TOLD VICKI, AS SOON AS I GOT MY BREATH, THAT BALMAMA WOULD STAND UP STIFFED LEGGED IN HER GRAVE, IF SHE SAW THIS GERANIUM TREE. 30 PAGE

31 I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE AND DID NOT EVEN DREAM THEY COULD GROW LIKE THIS. SO HANG ON..YOU ARE ABOUT TO SE SOMETHING THAT IS GOD SUPPLIED, MAN DIRECTED AND WILL SHOCK YOU.. NOTE THAT THEY ARE A GOOD 2 FOOT TALLER THAN I AM.. AMAZING! 31 PAGE

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35 ENOUGH OF THIS REMEMBERING! PAST MANY MONUMENTS AND TREES.. BEAUTIFUL AREA.. OUR WALK AROUND CONTINUED ON.. JOHAN VAN OLDENBARNEVELT WAS A STATESMAN WHO PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE DUTCH STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM SPAIN. IN 1585 HE BECAME LANDS ADVOCATE OF THE STATES OF HOLLAND, AN OFFICE HE HELD FOR 32 YEARS. 35 PAGE

36 GOSH! WHAT IS THAT? MORE OF GOD S HANDIWORK! 36 PAGE

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44 WE ARE TO MEET ANGELO HERE AT ABOUT 15:30.. I AM SURE HE WILL MAKE IT.. ALL IS WELL. WE WILL ALL THREE GO TO ROTTERDAM ON THE METRO LINE AFTER OUR VISIT TO THIS DIFFERENT AND WONDERFUL MUSEUM ESCHER IN THE PALACE IS A MUSEUM IN THE HAGUE. FEATURING THE WORKS OF THE DUTCH GRAPHICAL ARTIST MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER. ( ) THE MUSEUM IS HOUSED IN THE FORMER ROYAL RESIDENCE DATING BACK TO THE 18TH CENTURY. QUEEN EMMA BOUGHT THE STATELY HOUSE IN SHE USED IT AS A WINTER PALACE FROM MARCH 1901 TILL HER DEATH IN MARCH IT WAS USED BY FOUR SUBSEQUENT DUTCH QUEENS FOR THEIR BUSINESS OFFICES, UNTIL QUEEN BEATRIX MOVED THE OFFICE TO PALEIS NOORDEINDE. 44 PAGE

45 Maurits Cornelis Escher ( ) WAS A DUTCH GRAPHIC ARTIST WHO MADE MATHEMATICALLY-INSPIRED WOODCUTS, LITHOGRAPHS, AND MEZZOTINTS. HIS WORK FEATURES MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS AND OPERATIONS INCLUDING IMPOSSIBLE OBJECTS, EXPLORATIONS OF INFINITY, REFLECTION, SYMMETRY, PERSPECTIVE, TRUNCATED & STELLATED POLYHEDRA, HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY AND TESSELLATIONS.. ALTHOUGH ESCHER BELIEVED HE HAD NO MATHEMATICAL ABILITY, HE INTERACTED WITH THE MATHEMATICIANS ALL OVER THERE WORLD, AND CONDUCTED HIS OWN RESEARCH INTO TESSELLATIONS. 45 PAGE

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56 56 PAGE NOW I DON T CARE WHO YOU ARE.. SIT DOWN AND DRAW AN EYE WITH A PENCIL.. JUST DO IT.. NOW THIS IS ART!

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69 THIS WAS AN AMAZING DISPLAY OF MECHANICAL AND GRAPHIC ART AT ITS BEST.. WE HAD TO LEAVE AT 1700 CLOSING TIME.. WE ALL THREE WERE HUNGRY SO WE HAD TO FIND SOMEWHERE TO EAT WE WALKED 60 FOOT TO THE HOTEL DES INDES. 69 PAGE

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73 THIS IS THE METRO STATION.. WE CAUGHT THE TRAIN TO ROTTERDAM AND WALKED HOME. ALL IS WELL. WE HAVE HAD A GREAT TIME.. MANY THANKS TO OUR FRIEND, ANGELO, FOR LEADING US AROUND.. 73 PAGE

74 IT IS TIME TO FINISH THIS DATA. THIS EPISTLE IS DONE. SO LET IT BE WRITTEN: SO LET IT BE DONE. HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS LIFE IS GOOD! LOVE IS BETTER! 74 PAGE