Katinka Hesselink - my other lenses
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A lensography
Most of you know me here on Squidoo as lensmaster 'spirituality' - but I've also got a life outside my interests in spirituality (though perhaps that's not often noticeable). Anyhow on this lens I showcase my non-spiritual lenses and tell you all a bit more about myself.
About Me on Squidoo
My squidoo honours
I'm an active squid: that is, I have written over 600 pages on Squidoo. Squidoo is also one of my online homes away from home. I'm a prominent squid and belo...
Where, When, How
This is me looking thoughtful, probably on the beach somewhere. Picture taken by my grandmother, probably:

When I was 7 I got a new baby brother (my second brother). You can see I adored him:

At about the same age you can see me working in the garden of our Groningen house. Yes, I'm actually wearing wooden shoes. [Can't believe it. I hated those things and would have expected to refuse wearing them]

And this is me bathing, again looking thoughtful.

We moved for a year to Austin, Texas in the United States when I was 12 - which is where I learned the basis of my English. I went to Middle School there.
An introduction into consciousness reviewed
Consciousness: an Introduction, by Susan BlackmoreFascinating. I bought this book because I first heard of this author as a former parapsychologist. It's always good to read books by those whom you disagree ...
Quizzes - a few non spiritual ones
This is only a selection - check out the first link here for my full collection of spiritual and non-spiritual quizzes hosted on Squidoo
The Best Fun Facts and Trivia QuizzesQuizzes are a great way to learn new stuff and test our knowledge. On Squidoo one also gets Squid/Monster points for attempting the questions in a Quiz - doe...
Test your knowledge of Harry Potter magic, your spell mettle, your charms trivia, and your multiple choice skills. I have made you a 10 question quiz about t...
Quiz: Fun Calendars Trivia and FactsCalendars form, whether we realize it or not, the basis for our civilization. In this multiple choice quiz I've gathered historical trivia about calendars wo...
Bollywood Quiz: Indian Movies Facts and TriviaI have created a few Lenses on Bollywood and thought it would be nice to set up a quiz. Hope you will like the quiz and it will provide you an opportunity to...
Birthday gifts :)
Small, easy, fun. And the quality of the pictures I'm taking is great.
This year (2009) I got this pen, a few other things as well, but don't you love it too?
In 2010 my brothers gave me this huge book full of Buddhist Goddesses. I'm amazed :) Literally. It was a chore to get home. My parents gave me a much smaller, but harder to digest book with a fascinating title 'Out of This World: Otherworldly Journeys from Gilgamesh to Albert Einstein'. Doesn't that make you wonder?

Best small digital camera, the Casio Exilim Camera
I love this camera. I got it for my birthday. It's not sold in Europe, but my American Uncle sent it over. It is so easy to use - as long as you have the...
My favorite thing: a smiley flower pen!
I was challenged to make a page about my favorite thing - what would I most miss if it got lost in a fire? Well, I'd miss the usual: pictures of my family, my...

Creative Evolution by Amit Goswami PhD
Inspiring integration of the latest in physics with a spiritual perspective. Convincing in the point that since consciousness is part of the universe now (in...

The View From Within: First Person Approaches To The Study Of Consciousness
Miscellany of articles on the edge of the science of consciousness. Challenging and fascinating. On the roll of the body in consciousness and healing, about...
Buddhist Goddesses Art by Romio Shrestha
I got 'Goddesses of the celestial gallery' for my birthday (2010). It was quite a chore to take it home: it's almost as tall as this desk! (aka Poster size)...
Out of this World: Otherworldly Journeys from Gilgamesh to Albert Einstein
Real science is always hard to summarize. This book by Ioan Couliano is a book like that. I read the whole thing, but to be honest the most fascinating part...
Ceramics
I started ceramics winter 2011.
This is my favorite bowl so far. Don't you love those colors? See also my Ceramics portfolio. The text is in Dutch, but the images do speak for themselves I think. Former teacher
These lenses have some relation to that job. The first is to help teens organize their studies. The second: a home school chemistry project that adults might like too.

Teen planners and other organizing tips
This page is for teenagers and their parents who want to get serious about school and get organized. Unfortunately, at around twelve/thirteen, boys seem to...

How do you know the cheese on frozen pizza is actually cheese?
A kid in The Netherlands asked the CEO of a food company some questions for a school project. One of those questions was: is the cheese on a frozen pizza really...

Brainetics Math Games and Memory System
Brainetics is an aid for students, teachers, parents, and adult learners who would like to improve their mathematics and memory skills. It also helps one ma...

Origami Phizz Units - math crafts at home
This is a lens devoted to showing and explaining what a PHiZZ unit is and how much fun can be had from them. PHiZZ unit stands for 'Pentagon, Hexagon, Zig Zag'...

Best Software to Learn the Spanish Language
Brave Matadors, beautiful Flamenco dancers, and warm Mediterranean beaches - these are the popular images of Spain. However, Spain and the Spanish is much m...
Find me online & me as a nerd / geek / whatever
Nerdy lenses, Geeky gifts - digital info, tips and funMeet the nerd in me... I've made some lenses in which I share some of the things I've learned while designing websites and earning a living. These are them: ...
Going crazy trying to keep up with myself online. So this is where you can find me online and where I keep track of my many online profiles. There is a good ...
Eternal Student
I began as a Chemistry major - but quit because I wasn't getting the grades.
I went on to nursing school, where I failed on the practical side of things.
Then I became a teacher of math and chemistry. This is the first college after High School I actually finished - so I have two bachelors degrees from a teachers college. I tried teaching for three years, but found out that I'm not really cut out for that.
Next I went back to university to study the love of my life: religion and spirituality. I'm still there, hoping to get my BA degree in the summer of 2008.
I didn't get that degree: the writing of the final papers did not go well at all. Taking stock of my financial situation (and what was I doing this for) I quit. That was a huge relief. Turns out I hadn't been enjoying college for a while.
On my country - The Netherlands & being Dutch

Bikes in The Netherlands, about Dutch Bikes
There is no country in the world where biking is so normal as it is in The Netherlands - except China. This is a tribute to Dutch Bikes. Yes, we really do a...
Leiden, university town in The Netherlands
Culture, shopping, poetry on the walls, European Dutch old town architecture, fairs and more. This lens shows you a bit of the history of Leiden, some pictu...

Little known facts about The Netherlands
Learn about working women in The Netherlands, our royalty, or relationship with water, some history and a lot more. Like: isn't your country called 'Holland'?...

English as a second language: a personal account
Squidoo is quite good for my English. All those lovely homey topics. My English is excellent (if I may say so myself) when it comes to complicated issues. I...
Korte Vlietpad - my favorite walk in Leiden
Giant squids were asked, as our final assignment of our summer school 2009, to make a lens about our favorite haunt this summer. Well, I've been living in my...
My Brothers
Krijn Peter Hesselink
Dichter, performer, poetry slam veteraan - mijn broertje (niemand anders mag dat zeggen) Krijn Peter doet het allemaal. Hier volgen de video's waar hij op...
Sieger Baljon
My youngest brother's life is a bit hard to summarize on a page like this. Probably a family attribute, as mine is too... Anyhow he does an awful lot of stu...
My Dutch Lenses
Welkom bij mijn Nederlandstalige lenzen op squidoo. Squidoo is een platform waar iedereen gratis en gemakkelijk pagina's kan maken. Die webpagina's worden '...
A controversial topic in esoteric history
The Occult Roots Of Nazism reviewed
The Occult Roots Of NazismTHE book about one of the most controversial topics in occult history: the relationship between Nazism and occultism. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke did ground bre...
Good causes: Amnesty International and the Environment
Another lens on the environment (yes, global warming is real): I gathered my favorite environmental lenses here.
The lenses in this category will donate their proceeds to the good causes they are about - if the cause is listed for charity within Squidoo.
Amnesty International: campaigning for human rights
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all. This lens gives information on human...

The Environment Lensography
A lensography of the best lenses about pollution, global warming, safe energy and endangered species. We also feature famous people in the environmental mov...

Severn Suzuki - a famous environmental video: where is she now?
She's full of fire about the environment. She spoke to the UN at the age of 12. She's a scientist. I want to introduce you to Severn Suzuki. This lens...

Go Green, Nature and Ecological lenses
One of my passions is nature: it's essential to my mental health to have something green to look out at when I'm working. As I feel humanity is very busy st...
My squidoo blogs
- Squidoo tips and online marketing help
- I thought I'd mostly be linking out to my own lenses here - you know, another platform for self promotion. Instead most of what I've written has been about how YOU too can get your lenses found on google (aka SEO).
- Thank you lensmaster - squidoo reviews
- Thanking our most helpful lensmasters for their contribution to the community. Yes, I am slightly partial to lensmasters who have stepped up to help me personally.
My Marketing Spiritual Blog
Some lensographies I'd like you to know about
'lensographies' are table of contents pages for Squidoo - sort of like this page

Spirituality's Lensography of lensographies
What can I say to introduce myself. I'm an online addict who has two spiritual blogs, one spiritual website and so on. I'm interested in Religion, Spirituality,...
Best Spiritual Christmas Presents and top Religious Birthday Gift Ideas 2012
My collection of spiritual gift recommendations: web pages with spiritual products. Browse at your leisure. I also list the most popular products here. You will...

Art, photography and puzzles...
My parents have three kids and I'm the least artistic. That's not saying much, because both my brothers aim to be professional artists. Between the two of them...

Newest Lenses by Spirituality aka Katinka Hesselink
Sharing my latest squidoo lenses, all roughly less than a month old. Never less than 10. So if I have a slow month, I plan on showing the latest ten lenses I...

Movies, Music and Entertainment
On this page you'll find the stuff I've put online about music, movies and entertainment in general. On many of these pages you'll find gift ideas relating...
My Groups
Groups are an outdated function on squidoo: a place where lenses about the same topic were gathered manually. I've kept mine alive as lensographies that also feature other people's pages.
Just a lensography of all my groups on squidoo. And no: they aren't all about religion and spirituality. There's humor and insomnia as well. And just a bit m...
Some humor

Funny Indian Videos
There is a whole genre of funny movies that most of us will never have seen: Indian music video's turned into humor. Some of these were made by and for Indi...

Best Humor & Hilarity & Fun and Jokes webpages
Welcome to the Humor and Hilarity Group! This group is designed for family-friendly lenses that are funny. Because this group has become so large it's hard...
My favorite thing: a smiley flower pen!
I was challenged to make a page about my favorite thing - what would I most miss if it got lost in a fire? Well, I'd miss the usual: pictures of my family, my...
Terry Pratchett's Discworld: The Funniest Fantasy Novels Ever
Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite fantasy authors of all time. I had vowed not to write about this though, as I have too much else to do. However, ths one...

Best Funny Christmas Stocking Stuffers
Christmas stocking, funny gag gifts are often a fun family tradition. Filling those hanging stockings from the mantel with goofy presents along with the Chr...
A few of my debates

The Ultimate Questions - religion and spirituality
These are the ultimate philosophy questions we all ask ourselves about religion and spirituality. Vote, get inspired and share what you think about questions...

What's the best religion in the world?
Do you agree? Share your thoughts on this lens about what the best world religion is. I'm sticking to the world religions, for the sake of brevity, but have...

FINE art or FOLK art?
FINE art or FOLK art? Fine art and folk art are so hard to define, that even wikipedia gives up on it. Still, fine art is for rich people, upper class, educated....
Karma and Reincarnation: are we reborn?
Karma and reincarnation are linked. Karma is the idea that what we do and have done influences our circumstances, talents and options. Reincarnation means t...
Is Buddhism a Religion or a Philosophy?
There is a long tradition in the West to regard Buddhism as a philosophy. This tradition was started by Enlightenment philosophers (those who like rational...
Top pages about health, beauty and food
How to Stop Going Red with embarrassment
Do you go red in the face in any social situation? Does your skin light up whenever you have to speak in public or do a presentation? There are two things to...
Red Cheeks, how to get rid of them!
My cheeks are red, and have been as long as I can remember. Worse yet: they've grown more red as I grew older. I've finally found a product that works though:...

Best Vegan Cookbooks
Vegan cooking is a challenge - even in today's world with soy products available almost everywhere. And isn't that the point? ALMOST everywhere? So, for your...
Harry Potter Candy Store, Harry Potter Sweets Shop
The genius of J.K. Rowling hasn't just created a great fantasy series, or a spin off movie set, but also... an intriguing new collection of sweets. Some...
Best Baking and Dessert Cookbooks
The top baking and desserts cookbooks are awaiting you so you can leave your mother-in-law speechless for once. This is the best variety of baking and desserts...
Calendars and planner selections
Nature Photography Calendars, Date books, Planners and Poster Calendars
I think pictures of nature are very relaxing to the nerves. Especially if they are beautiful. I selected nature calendars from various vendors to make it easier...
Best Planners, Day planners, Weekly & Daily Agenda Books
Looking for an appointment planner - a way to plan your family life perhaps? Looking for a home planner, or a student planner to keep track of your homework?...
Unique Calendars, Best agenda books and Creative Planners
Calendars and planners are a necessity of life - well, if you have any intention of keeping organized that is. I've made it my business to find you the best...
Best Student Planners, Calendars, Organizers
As soon as students are expected to organize their own homework, you will need a planner or agenda book to keep track of things. This generally starts in Middle...
Calendars Blog: How I stay organized
Calendars can help keep you organized, but I do other things as well. On this page I let you in on 10 of my ways of keeping chaos at bay. This lens was sta...
Calendar reminder stickers for every day planning and organising
One of the easiest and most affordable parenting tools are calendar stickers. They're fun, they can be used as a reward for good behavior and they are also a...
Top 5 Computers, Gadgets and Technology lenses
Best Lightweight 13 inch laptop
I recently bought a laptop. I was stumped for a bit on how to decide which to buy, till someone reminded me that if you're going to carry a laptop around, it...

Purse for iPad 2 : cute purses and handbags for women
The iPad is just great. It is light, easy to use and has just enough functionality to replace the laptop in the office. In fact, for many people it will replace...

Cool Teen Gadgets
They're fun, they're cool, they're so IT: gadgets as Christmas gifts for teens. Whether they're a bit nerdy, or just plain want the best of the best: gadgets...
Best iPad and iPad2 bag for men and women
Don't you love your iPad? I sure love mine! I take it everywhere. However, it does require a slightly larger handbag than I'd otherwise carry and some of my...
Best cute rolling laptop luggage, bags and backpacks
I've found you eight wheeled laptop cases: from light for the office, to bulky and able to store you paperwork and overnight cloths. Rolling laptop bags are...
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Mar 20, 2012 @ 8:12 pm | delete
- Very interesting read. Love to hear about the journey of a fellow teacher. (I guess I'll do a lens on it sometime, who knows.) You may not be in a physical classroom, but you sure are in a cyber one. You continue to teach, just in a different platform and you excel at it. P.S. I too was put in an incubator. Did they cover your eyes? Many children have visual problems because they didn't.
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spirituality Mar 21, 2012 @ 4:50 am | delete
- I don't know that they covered my eyes, but since I still don't wear glasses (though the time is growing near), I don't think I suffered for it.
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sherioz Dec 27, 2011 @ 7:05 am | delete
- You grew up in Groningen? I was there a few years ago for a conference at the hospital. I loved that town. September was such a beautiful time to visit.
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Psycho-Gamer Jul 21, 2011 @ 12:37 pm | delete
- what a sweet and beautiful child u were...i love the photos with u holding ur brother and with u at the beach.....great photos both of them....and it was really wonderful klnowing a few stuff about u...
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KimGiancaterino Nov 15, 2009 @ 6:53 pm | delete
- This was fun... I really enjoyed your photographs. Blessed by a Squid Angel.
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