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I can only wish to be so grounded as you guys. I think this song really captures that feeling. Enjoy!

Lots of love from The Netherlands!

Marc

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I know there isn't much to see here
There may be even less to do
Some people say there is no future here for me
And maybe that is true

Some houses by the lonely harbour
A narrow street leads to the church
A bus-stop and some bored old seagulls
I'm calling this my piece of earth

For reasons that I can't remember
I've never felt this reckless urge
To go just where the road might take me
I'm happy on this piece of earth

I've never been afraid of silence
What scares me more are empty words
But this is something you can count on
I'm staying on this piece of earth

You tell me that I shouldn't stay here
You say there's so much more to see
The world is full of golden chances
And that somewhere there's a prince for me

But can't you see that all I wished for
Was you for better and for worse
And to hear you say how much you love me
Forever on this piece of earth

Writers: Martin and Jenny Schaub (of West of Eden)

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Dear lovely Robyn. Hopefully you had a wonderful day with your family and friends in Alunisu. I really admire your strength and kindness to everyone. I wish you 50 more years to celebrate being you: more years of spreading your ideas and positive energy and light.

Even though we had little contact the last months, I did not forget you and hope to talk to you soon. I'm also really curious about NVC retreats in the village. I really hope to meet you again soon!

Namaste.
Lots of love from Amsterdam!

Vera

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In honour of the sweet mirror to my soul

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In honour of the sweet mirror to my soul

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Dearest Robyn,

Words fall short when trying to describe what meeting you meant to me. I can only scribble this:

Witnessing your strength in being gentle, soft and vulnerable felt like a door to heaven opened in my heart. I am so grateful to feel the honouring we share for each other’s soul. And in my wildest dreams, I envision myself growing greyer, more tender and loving in your very proximity. In flesh, blood and bones and not via Zoom.

In love and reverence
Alexandra

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Buon compleanno cara Robyn! We love you, you gifted our lives with support, nourishment, beauty and learning.
We bless your precious life and we send you our gratitude, warmth and love.
We celebrate this special day with you, close in the spirit.
Chiara and Luca

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Happy Birthday dear Robyn!!!! Wishing you  daffodils of heavenly joy,  exquisite richness of lilacs and sweet earthly tenderness of poppies... if only I could share how full my heart feels when I think of you.. so much love

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Happy Birthday dear Robyn!!!! Wishing you  daffodils of heavenly joy,  exquisite richness of lilacs and sweet earthly tenderness of poppies... if only I could share how full my heart feels when I think of you.. so much love

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Tihana

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This is how to post a message here for Robyn:

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This is how to post a message here for Robyn:

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...simply click on the plus (+)sign in the pink circle down at the bottom right of this page (scroll) and ...off you go!
Remember to write your name on your post!

(Note: if you do not see a plus (+), then simply click your mouse on the background page with the clourful decorations, and the pink circle should appear).

You can also add pictures, videos, music, all sorts... if you click on the 3 dots ... at the bottom of your post.

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Still a teacher and a reference to us after 9 years. We celebrate your 50th in our place so inspired by our stay with you! May you shine in this realm for a 50 more years at least. Love, Chenny and Steven.

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Bon anniversaire, chère Robyn! Je te souhaite d’être heureuse et de t’épanouir sur le chemin que tu as choisi. Je me réjouis d’avoir fait ta connaissance et j’espère que nous reprendrons nos dialogues en miroir sur les pays de nos enfances. La multi ani fericiti! Et un souvenir d’avril 2014. Je t'embrasse, Monica

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Bon anniversaire, chère Robyn! Je te souhaite d’être heureuse et de t’épanouir sur le chemin que tu as choisi. Je me réjouis d’avoir fait ta connaissance et j’espère que nous reprendrons nos dialogues en miroir sur les pays de nos enfances. La multi ani fericiti! Et un souvenir d’avril 2014. Je t'embrasse, Monica

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Met een grote verjaardagskus, Renate

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(with a y. from Ros with a y I forgot to say just now)

Inexplicably I also want to share a favourite song with you that I have been playing very loud with the headphones on.  Somehow (though the words are a bit random) it conjures up for me a similarly quizzical response to the moment we share together in history - the passion the turmoil and the energy - connecting with the wonder of why and what now?
Lots of love wishing you a magical day Ros as in Roslyn xx

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Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Sebastian

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With a (wh)y, how I love that I know you!  Wishing you a great deal of joy today for your big birthday and thank you for inviting me here.  I am enjoying the memory of getting to know you better in a windswept gale in Wales and your infectious irrepressible laughter as we regaled the wonder at why we were there pushing forwards into the headwind on the far flung peninsula known as St Davids Head. Happily we retreated in time and I got to stay another night and laugh a lot - thank you so much for being you expressing for all the world what it so needs to hear.

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At 6am this morning, six bee boxes arrived at Lieshuis. Today, the bees ventured into a new flower pasture, sometimes tentatively, sometimes boldly. As with the years of life, new pastures, new horizons to explore. At times, colorfully diverse and abundant, others harsh or rocky. Dormant seeds, planted years ago, wait for the perfect moment to emerge. Like the bees, flow with the seasons, and when in doubt, dance.

Happy birthday. Gefeliciteerd met jouw verjaardag.

Liefs, Stan en Iris

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I watch the hummingbird fly from flower to flower and think of how far it flies to find the right flower. You have traveled far and I think you have found your flower. Enjoy the nectar.

Happy birthday.

Johannes

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Lieve Robyn,

Vandaag, 13 juni 2021 gaan we, allen die van je houden, in een heel blije cirkel staan en we vragen jou om in het centrum te gaan staan - Een cirkel van blije mensen, van jong tot oud, vanuit de hele wereld, want overal op onze planeet wonen en leven jouw ideeen - de liefde die jij geeft, ontvangt en doorgeeft. Ieder met zijn eigen dankbaarheid voor waar jij voor gaat en leeft en doorgeeft. Ook ik mag in die cirkel staan.

Franneke

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So many happinesses and good wishes for you! Happy that the universe guided you to my door when we were in graduate school in Boulder and I was looking for roommates. It was a time of learning and growing for me and I was glad to share it with you, with all its interesting edges! I’m inspired by the life you have been living and the world you have been a part of creating, and grateful that we have reconnected - an unexpected Covid-time gift, this zoom thing. Thank you for introducing me to NVC and Sarah Peyton and thank you for helping me realize that accordions are cool! Happy 50th to you, my friend!   I’m so grateful you are in my life and grateful to call you my friend. Here’s to many, many more years of happiness, joy, love and life!
Love  - Linda

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How wonder-full and exciting it was meant for us to meet and meet again!! 

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How wonder-full and exciting it was meant for us to meet and meet again!! 

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Melinda

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Wishing you the happiest birthday  🥳🎉🥳🎉
May all your wishes come true 😘
♥️ Korrie

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I am so thankful to have a sister like you. And I thank you for accepting me as a brother. I can feel the love and understanding of both of you. You are so close to me. I cherish the times we have been together, the feelings we have shared, the love and attention you gave to me (and my loved-one!!), the acceptance and hospitality. I really feel at home being with you.

May the God of heaven and earth guide, protect and bless you forever.

May our love keep binding us stronger and stronger.

Happy birthday!

Love you,

Jan Jaap

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In celebration of the life you've lived until now, I thought to recognize all that will continue as you do so - that the coming days are not a future of possibilities and a constant "now" of valences and tendencies that must be reckoned with and navigated. You well know that all of Carsten's tomorrows are fully anchored in your todays and that has brought you all to Transylvania - a place in which today and tomorrow get to live very close by one another. My gratitude for having met you and for the chance to be inspired by your example and to have the gift of your friendship and alongsidedness. I leave you with a few words by one of my favorite farmers. Love, jas...

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"One of my correspondents asked where one is to draw the line. That question returns me to the bewilderment I mentioned earlier: I am unsure where the line ought to be drawn, or how to draw it. But it is an intelligent question, worth losing some sleep over.

I know how to draw the line only where it is easy to draw. It is easy – it is even a luxury – to deny oneself the use of a television set, and I zealously practice that form of self-denial. Every time I see television (at other people’s houses), I am more inclined to congratulate myself on my deprivation. I have no doubt, as I have said, that I am better off without a computer. I joyfully deny myself a motorboat, a camping van, an off-road vehicle, and every other kind of recreational machinery. I have, and want, no ‘second home.’ I suffer very comfortably the lack of colas, TV dinners, and other counterfeit foods and beverages.

I am, however, still in bondage to the automobile industry and the energy companies, which have nothing to recommend them except our dependence on them. I still fly on airplanes, which have nothing to recommend them but speed; they are inconvenient, uncomfortable, undependable, ugly, stinky, and scary. I still cut my wood with a chainsaw, which has nothing to recommend it but speed, and has all the faults of an airplane, except it does not fly.

It is plain to me that the line ought to be drawn without fail wherever it can be drawn easily. And it ought to be easy (though many do not find it so) to refuse to buy what one does not need. If you are already solving your problem with the equipment you have – a pencil, say – why solve it with something more expensive and more damaging? If you don’t have a problem, why pay for a solution? If you love the freedom and elegance of simple tools, why encumber yourself with something complicated?

And yet, if we are ever again to have a world fit and pleasant for little children, we are surely going to have to draw the line where it is not easily drawn. We are going to have to learn to give up things that we have learned (in only few years, after all) to ‘need.’ I am not an optimist; I am afraid that I won’t live long enough to escape my bondage to the machines. Nevertheless, on every day left to me I will search my mind and circumstances for the means of escape. And I am not without hope. I knew a man who, in the age of chainsaws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was a healthier and a saner man than I am. I shall let his memory trouble my thoughts." - Wendell Berry, from "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine (1989)"

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It could be said that an important component of magic is recognizing and choosing what influences you. As I reflect on the time that Kenzie and I spent together with you and Lars and Carsten in Alunisu - the amount of time itself was small but the influence on my life and spirit was exponential. There are few memories or moments that I look back on where I truly wish I could go back and revisit. Being with you all is one of those. It is such a treasure for me. Robyn - though there are years and miles between us - I hold you so dear to my heart - and the memories of you sing sweetly in my mind (quite literally). I can still feel your kindness and radiance and soft ability to dive into the depths of human experience and connection. Thank you for the magic you have brought into my life and into the world - you are a role model, an inspiration, and warm place in my heart. Thank you for being you <3 and happy happy happy birthday!!!!

till we meet again
Geena

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And I refuse to believe itfor at least another 10 years when your mental and physical form MAYBE finally reaches that age number. Anyway, birthday is here. And I am happy to think of you. Life, love, The All. You know... Ondrej

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From my head:

Compassionate, honorable, fair-minded and loyal are more than just words (if I were trying to describe Robyn Marie Bors Veraart as a person) in the ways that she connects with the world. Grounded thinking, mindful interactions and spiritually driven are the signposts by which her intercourses are directed as a human being.

From my heart:

If love is the fuel of life and God’s love has truly sparked the world, then the joy of life’s splendor is enriched with every sunrise arisen and each breath taken in these 50 years. These 50 years as you have walked on sunshine spreading the light of your life to those you’ve touched and as those fortunate beings, whom you will touch in the next 50; in shining your light, love and sunshine while sparking love wherever you go and then renewing rewards of life, love & light in all that you do.

In my soul:

I know these things to be real because the truth of my life has been so sparked & so deeply touched by you and the sunshine of your love.

Minden és örökké,

APA 😘

Photo: HHI, SC - USA

rmbv - 13 April 2006

"WALKING ON SUNSHINE"

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Robyn! I’m so grateful you are alive! Teaching, growing, loving and singing sweetness into the world. The time I have spent with you is special to me, dropping into the magical worlds you have co created and tend to. Your influence on my life is a sweet little song in the back of my heart, a reminder to step through the fields and mountains and waters of my life with beauty, care, slowness and attention. To be witness to you is a gift! Happy birthday friend!

Here’s a mini playlist for you:

Cate Le Bon - Are You With Me Now?
Aoife Nessa Francis - In The End
Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind
Angel Bat Dawid - We Are Starzz
Jonny Frierson - Miracles
Cornelia Murr - Different This Time
Diana Ross - It’s My House

The Rosa rugosa are flowering at the edges of the Salish Sea (Coast Salish territory). If I could I would lay this sweet smellin’ rose garland around your neck 💓

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Van harte gefeliciteerd met je vijftigste verjaardag! Maak er een heel speciale dag van, samen met Lars en Carsten, en alle vrienden daar!
Het was een heerlijke tijd om samen met jou in onze schuur te werken. Er ontstonden mooie nieuwe ideeën. Met fijne gesprekken onder genot van een glas lekkere saliethee. En de mooie klaprooslamp die we toen hebben gemaakt. De jaren gaan snel voorbij dus blijf van het leven genieten, net als wij!
Lieve groetjes, en een dikke kus,
Theo&Thea

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Dear Robyn, my wish for you on your 50th birthday is based on a prayer from my homeland.                      May the wind be always at your back, may the sun always shine upon your face....and may your path always be filled with lightness, ease and love and everyone you meet hold you with respect, dignity and appreciation in their hearts, for you are a jewel to be treasured!  These wishes straight from my heart to yours..., happy birthday dear friend, Lorna

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Dear Robyn, my wish for you on your 50th birthday is based on a prayer from my homeland.                      May the wind be always at your back, may the sun always shine upon your face....and may your path always be filled with lightness, ease and love and everyone you meet hold you with respect, dignity and appreciation in their hearts, for you are a jewel to be treasured!  These wishes straight from my heart to yours..., happy birthday dear friend, Lorna

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these lovely ladies sing for you...resilient medicine woman!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx17RvPMaQ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx17RvPMaQ8

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Common "motherland", what we have chosen, Alunisu :-)

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Common "motherland", what we have chosen, Alunisu :-)

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This picture  tells me everything about you! Your hospitality was always so naturally, that made us feel we have known you all in our life... I'm grateful to know you, and wish you all the best for your next 50 years! You are in our heart! Klára&family