Prologue

I began writing on this work in progress at least 14 years ago, but I trained for it form childhood on. Not that I wrote on it all those years, not at all. I learn most by walking on my own in nature, and by looking around when I am among people.

Many, many excuses to all people whose lives I have bothered with it, through impatience, lack of time, lack of attention, lack of understanding, and my sometimes muddled thoughts.

My thank goes to the people who kept believing in me.

April $10^{th}$, 2001, Bert Frederiks