Two of the strongest triggers for our memories are smells and sounds, especially music. In the Moment is a disarray of autobiographical sketches shaped around a playlist of 44 songs. It is the examined narrative of moments that took the author's breath away, vividly recalled by the music.
With tales from his eight years as a non-commissioned officer in the Royal Netherlands Army; his travels through Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas; and his life as an expat in Laos. In the Moment is a brutally honest global rollercoaster of hot-blooded highs and lows.
A quixotic polemicist by nature, Marko uses a street-savvy narration style and real-life stories to connect with you at an intimate, intense and individual level.
Like a Rothko canvas, this memoir is "an occasion for the sadness in the author to meet the sadness in you, and that way, everyone will be less lonely."
Find the music, sit back, read and enjoy the ride!
YouTube playlist: http: //ow.ly/rmAs303Euju)
"Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards." - Søren Kierkegaard
About the Author: Like you, philosopher and teacher Marko van Gaans (b. 1972) has always wondered about the meaning of life. Does it take an artist to interpret it? Does a platypus worry about its life? Is a meaningful life really just a matter of living, or is there a whole different narrative?
Having spent eight years as a non-commissioned officer in the Royal Netherlands Army, been an educator for over two decades and, most importantly, with more than 40 years of in-the-trenches life experience, Marko's authentic stories take you on an electrifying rollercoaster ride of hot-blooded highs and lows.
Like a Rothko painting, Marko's writing is "an occasion for the sadness in him to meet the sadness in you, and that way, you'll both feel less lonely."
Residing in Vientiane, Laos with his wife and son, Marko lives a virtual existence as Philosopher-in-Residence at the Wu-Wei Re-search Institute, a Hong Kong based think-tank concerned with researching discerning questions about the ontological Self and sustainable living in contemporary urban society.
Prior to this current position, Marko, a philosopher and human geographer by education and passion, trained senior NATO officers in computer simulated war games and taught, among many others, government officials in Laos.
