Tijn heeft het voor elkaar.

Op NRC.nl las ik het volgende artikel:

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/07/07/lieve-tijn-11735589-a1565950

Een artikel geschreven door Youp van ’t Hek zonder ook maar één keer een vloek. Een Youp van ’t Hek die nu pas door die kleine Tijn is gaan inzien waar het echt om draait in het leven. Een Youp van ’t Hek die zich nu zo tegen het einde van zijn eigen leven afvraagt: Wie is toch die God? 

Waarom moeten we eerst met de neus op feiten worden gedrukt, voordat we inzien wat er echt toe doet in dit leven?!

Hoeveel signalen hebben wij mensen nodig om in te zien dat er een goddelijke kracht bestaat, ook in onszelf? Het is alleen de keuze in onszelf om deze kracht tot uiting te laten komen.

Is het niet een wonder dat Tijn zo veel heeft kunnen betekenen voor anderen?

Hadden wij als mens niet iets kunnen betekenen voor Tijn? 

Een hersenstamtumor is nu nog zo complex dat wij als mens anno 2017 niet weten hoe het op te lossen is. 100 jaar geleden waren het tuberculose, pokken, mazelen, waar mensen op vroege leeftijd aan overleden. Toen in die tijd voelde mensen zich ook machteloos als er een kind, maar zelfs ook een volwassene de mazelen had.

Door wetenschappelijk onderzoek en heel veel onderzoekswerk zijn deze (kinder)ziektes voor ons in de westerse wereld vandaag de dag geen enkele bedreiging meer. Zo’n hersenstamtumor dus nog wel.

Als we ons nu eens met z’n allen gingen richten op wat er echt toe doet in dit leven?! 

Geen muren bouwen of lak hebben aan wetenschap! Geen Trumpiaans denken.

Maar kleur geven aan het leven dat ons gegeven is. Een klein gebaar van steun welk voor een ander groots mag zijn. Er überhaupt voor elkaar kunnen zijn.

Zodat een kind, heel lang gewoon een zorgeloos en blij kind kan zijn.

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Maar ook voor een volwassene kunnen wij iets betekenen.

Bij toeval ook de afgelopen week een bericht gekregen van vrienden die ik ken uit San Diego. Geraakt door dit bericht mijn reactie op FB hieronder.

De tekst spreekt voor zich:

When I was in San Diego I met one of the kindliest persons I have ever met in my life! Kerstin Robers.

Tell you why in a minute.

But now her husband, Marc, had a stroke, Marc has to recover, has to get a lot of rehabilitation. And then now one can see the inhuman healthcare system of the USA, there is no money from out of an insurance company to help Marc out. And with this Trump, it is getting worse and worse.

Now Kerstin herself had to start a charity fund to collect money for the healthcare recovery of Marc.

I can tell you, from out of a persective of the Netherlands this is so unreal, we almost can not imagine that this fund is necessary. But if life is not that lucky with you, and one has to deal with some heavy bumps on the road, then life is hard in the United States.

I can not safe the world, I can not change politics, I can not change this stupid mind of these insane rich people in this world who think that they are smart enough to keep all the money to themselves, all that I can not change. But what I can change is the world of people who are close to me, help them out, and even if it is a minor gift from out of my own perspective, even these minor gifts put together will have a giant impact on ones human life.

I hope I can convince you that if we even for now collect only with minor gifts together, then in the end the goal here is set in this funding will be achieved.
More than half of the money neccesary to get a good help to recover Marc is allready there, just about $3000 to go. To donate on gofundme.com is so easy. Even if it is just ONE DOLLAR of all of my friends here, then it is a thousand dollars in total!

So Please, if you want to donate just this ONE DOLLAR here you can find a link. And Please share it. So we can help Kerstin and her husband to make this life become once for all a life worth living.
Thank you!

gf.me/u/bbvnf8

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Kerstin Roberts, she is one of the kindest people I have ever met. She gave to me so much, when I was in the states, not in money, but just what is important to get along in this world, no one ever did this to me in such a way. 

Kerstin was the Art director of the San Diego Art Institute at the time I was in the states. I met her in the museum of the living artist and because her roots are from Germany, we started to have a chat in German and that was just fun. But the end of this story was that she gave me this amazing opportunity to get this Art project in the museum!

Which was amazing! And very succesfull.

Kerstin was such an amazing person to work with. One thing as an example, to see how kind she is.

She had this very old, Classic Volvo car, without airco, in San Diego!

I think in the Netherlands it was not allowed to have this vehicle on the road, but for her this was a very important way to travel around, going to work and being independent on others. Traveling around to hospitals with her husband Marc, who was already having some healthproblems at that time.

But Kerstin intended on it that I got the keys of the Volvo and could travel along in San Diego to get my artstuff for this artproject.

Me, an artist from the Netherlands, me in a strange city, driving the Volvo around.

Kerstin is one of these people who will help you out, even if she is having almost nothing, even then she can give you the best.

So I an not into collecting money for charity, I am more to act for charity and change things to have no money problems at all, I think that in a basic way in healthcare it even should not be of any issue! But for now, and especially in the states, money is an issue to survive. And because I know Kerstin really well, I have given you this story, in the hope that even this ONE DOLLAR, will change Kerstin’s and Marc’s life a little bit in a good direction!
Thank you so much if you even have get it to this last sentence!:) 

A new acoustic experiment in contemporary art

Art meets Science, Audiology meets Art!

A new acoustic experiment in contemporary art.

Dyon Scheijen is a medical physicist in audiology, specialized in tinnitus and hyperacusis, works at the Audiological Center Adelante (the Netherlands).

Started his other career as a professional artist (abstract impressionalism) in 2012. 

Did a summer course in art at the San Diego Art Institute, California in 2013. Since 2014 he is the owner of the Art Gallery, Dyon Scheijen Art.

In 2016 together with aixFOAM Germany Dyon Scheijen developed a new acoustic experiment to use acoustic elements instead of canvasses. In his work in Audiology he sees a lot of patients complaing of serious acoustic problems in modern designed environments. Especially older people moving to big modern appartments, having no curtains nor carpets, only lots of glass and hard materials. Looks very modern, but with dramatic acoustic characteristics for speech perception. So then as an artist using this huge canvasses, Scheijen came up with this amazing idea to use these acoustic elements they use in acoustic chambers. And the results are extraordinairy, in acoustic as well as in Art.

New artworks will folow soon.

https://youtu.be/baLqT0ConDU

http://dyonscheijen.nl/contact.html

An artist is no Artist without an audience. Art need to be shared, only then art is Art.

The first acoustic elements Scheijen painted as a huge diptych:

DS16004 DS16005 200 X 200 cm 78,74″ X 78,74″ Acrylics on acoustic material

Exhibited in public at the Excellent Maastricht 2016

http://www.excellentmaastricht.nl/exposanten/dyon-scheijen-art/

Now this diptych is exhibited in a fancy restaurant to improve the acoustic characteristics. 

https://www.viamichelin.nl/web/Restaurant/Wahlwiller-6286_DA-Infini-422099-41102

© 2016 Dyon Scheijen Art