This is the private site of Machiel Vincent van Mechelen. Those who recognize the alliteration in my full name and in the initials MVVM and who like the sound of it are referred to the Vocabulary of Alliteration, a new, poetic aid for writing poems and songs, among which my own poems. You may also or first wish to read some informal personal information about me or to pay my deceased cat, immortalized in many words and two pictures, a virtual visit.

The 'note' at the top of this document is being replaced once a month, in line with a truly global and globally relevant chronology. If you have missed out on some of the previous aphorisms, statements or ideas, or want to see them again, you may go to the collected Notes of the Metric Months.

Perhaps, you are more interested in sparrows, which, of course, is your every right. If A Sparrow in Northumbria is not enough (or too much), you can always try one of the real short stories, of which one is really short. Should you find me a rather puzzling personality, you might be right in one respect and wrong in another, for i prefer making crossword puzzles to solving those of others.

	Yours truly, painted by my father a while ago

While you seem to be able to read documents in This Language, you may not be able to read them in Deze Taal or in Zhezhong Yuyan. Fortunately, pictures surpass the bounds of national language, if not of all language. To enjoy the oil paintings by my late father and those by my late mother or to see my own photographs of Brazil and China your native tongue suffices.

This site was started in the Amsterdam Digital City 51 years after the end of the Second World War, in the nongraphic text-browser era. (See what it looked like then!) Five years later, when TRINPsite abandoned its xs4all.nl address, MVVM took over. Another five years later this multilingual site became accessible via its own, transnational domain name: mvvm.net.

I am also the 'site planner' of , a denominational Web site with philosophical, literary and other texts, pictures and sound files. A large part of it consists of documents of the Model of Neutral-Inclusivity. You can find a number of Model links at this site too. TRINPsite is a home for people who believe in, or want to know more about, the primacy of norms and values in general, and truth, relevance, inclusiveness, neutrality and personhood in particular.

People like me ... and like you, perhaps?

Good night 'n' day ,