To GcR – Ina Vandebroek You died, and I did not even go to your funeral. It was 1990 when we met, your long black hair framed your face like a painting, your smile made happiness out of air, just like that. How was I to know that 25 years later I would write you […]

Ina Vandebroek – Bush Girl

How shall I name The unspeakable, that within me hides as a bird’s nest in my chest? And in that nest Not an egg, but a caterpillar. Something beautiful Will fly away from it one day, but until then How shall I name The unimaginable? That which seeks music to hum, And in that music […]

Wall Street Journal – Rooting for Health – Ina Vandebroek

An Ethnobotanist Helps Ralph Gardner Jr. Get to the Root of Things By Ralph Gardner Jr. in the Wall Street Journal I feel a raise and a book deal on the way. It has nothing to do with luck or merit. Or the election results. But rather a “money drawing” air freshener I acquired last […]

TEKENBEET

  Onderwerp: vraag aan prof.J.Lauweryns, hoofdredacteur Professor, Mijn naam is Dr.Lorry Swerts uit Geel en oud-student van u. In 1981 heb ik samen met collega Verstreken, inmiddels overleden,een publicatie gemaakt over ‘meningoradiculitis door tekenbeet’, syndroom dat nu past in het kader van Lyme borreliose. Het is gepubliceerd in Tijdschr. voor Geneeskunde, 37, nr.2, 1981. Mijn […]