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WORLD ANIMAL DAY


My Summer fling at the Curaçao Sea Aquarium was tall, dark and handsome. Happy World Animal Day. 😊❤️🐶🐴🐠🐄🐸🐨🐼🐰🐤🐅🐫🐘


I love animals.

And I love this photo, hence the exception of my (rather extreme) use of emojis. It was a beautiful, sunny day on Curaçao. Beautiful and sunny... aren't they all?


Though I was born in the Netherlands, I grew up on this little space in paradise.

It is where I spent my happy, carefree childhood. This photo was taken years after leaving the Caribbean. I had already lived in the United States for eleven years and had moved back to the Netherlands for many years. So I was overjoyed to pack my bags and revisit Curaçao together with my family.

 

" It was a beautiful, sunny day on Curaçao.

Beautiful and sunny... aren't they all? "

 
Kizzy in Curaçao.

I can't remember a time while living on the Island, that we didn't own at least three our four pets at home. I was not the only one who loved animals, my entire family loved and loves them. Perhaps this explains, why before I left Curaçao to live in Boston by myself, I had to face the sad reality of not only saying goodbye to my family. I had to say goodbye to our three dogs, two cats, two turtles, twenty something fish, our bird and our ever growing family of rabbits.


It was a sad day.

A sad and cloudy day.

A sad, dark and cloudy day on Curaçao.


OK, let's skip the dramatic metaphors or perhaps oxymorons. It had been over 10 years that I had visited Curaçao, and the last time I was only there for a few days. Those days consisted of doing interviews, being (read sleeping) at the recording studio, rehearsals for my concert and then flying back to America the next morning.

So this time we decided it was going to be a real vacation. We would all take a break and relax. I did a few interviews here and there, but most of my days looked like that first picture. A dream.