I came across a detailed story about the Netherlands on YouTube yesterday. Most interesting! Permit me to share a bit with you.
The Netherlands favorite color? Not red, white or blue. Orange. The Dutch even have a national holiday which celebrates the color. King’s Way. April 27. Everyone parties dressed in orange.
The Village of Giethoorn is located in the Netherlands. Unique. Affluent homes. No roads. Transportation is via canals.
Amsterdam an exciting city. It has a world wide special section called Dwallen. The sex neighborhood. Night times packed. Strictly adult entertainment. Two thousand workers. Houses of ill repute referred to as “entertainment houses.” Three hundred seventeen entertainment houses in Dwallen.
Window women a primary attraction. Cost $43-$53 for 15-20 minutes.
Flowers obviously a main Netherlands’ attraction. Not just tulips. All kinds of flowers. As far as the eye can see in different colors. The view has been described as a place where “nature becomes art.”
Flower auctions are held daily. In huge numbers. Great volumes sold for delivery world wide. Auctions different from what are held in other parts of the world. The auctioneer sets a high number and then the bids are in lower numbers.
Van Gogh did his famous Starry Night painting in June 1889 from his asylum room window facing east at Saint-Remy Province. The painting depicts a scene just before sunrise. Van Gogh painted in an imaginary village. The painting’s home is the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
In recent years in honor of van Gogh and his work Starry Night, an illuminated bike path that glows in the dark was created.
The bike path is one kilometer long. It is located in the City of Eindhoven.
Illuminated with thousands of twinkling stones that feature glow in the dark technology and solar powered LED lights.
Finally of course there are the many windmills the Netherlands are famous for. Several hundred years old. Still in working condition.
Appears the Netherlands is worthy of a visit.
Greg Sterling is Dean of the Yale Divinity School. He recently commented re Trump’s USAID cuts and the millions of Africans it affects. Sterling pointed out 20 million African lives were saved from AIDS. Trump’s dramatic cuts will remove U.S. provided AIDS assistance to 6 million in the next four years. Making death inevitable.
Sterling said, “Trump’s cuts are anti-Christian at the core.” Right he is! Trump cut neither thinking nor caring what the affect would be.
As suggested by Sterling, care for the poor is a prerequisite to our Christian commitment. Christ said: “Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” Matthew 25:40.
Stated simply, how we treat the least among us will impact our eternal value. Christians are shown to be who they are by their care for others who are in need.
I close with a growing Florida problem. Perhaps not a problem. In reality, a benefit long awaited. The issue has to do with housing and its outrageous costs in recent years.
The Florida housing market is in the process of collapsing. Contracts are failing. Property taxes sky rocketing.
Numbers speak loud and clear. Forty one thousand home purchase agreements fell through in January. The number equals 14.3 percent of homes under contract in January. The number up by 13.4 percent compared to one year earlier. The highest contract failure rate for the same time period since 2017.
Hang in there. House prices may still come down dramatically!
Enjoy your day!