Showing posts with label Hubert Heine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hubert Heine. Show all posts

Faire Part Hubert Heine - 25 novembre 2025


C’est avec une infinie tristesse que je vous annonce le décès de mon Papa bien aimé, Hubert Heine, survenu ce mardi 25 novembre 2025.
Après un long combat qu’il a affronté avec une force et un courage admirables, il s’est éteint paisiblement. Mon Père était un homme lumineux, droit et généreux, dont la bienveillance et l'optimisme ont marqué tous ceux qui ont croisé son chemin. Repose en paix mon Papa adoré, mon guide, mon héro. Tu laisses un immense vide.

Pour honorer sa mémoire et partager un peu de ce qui faisait la beauté de son esprit, voici la dernière lettre qu’il a écrite, une véritable leçon de vie, un texte d’une rare beauté, d’autant plus bouleversant qu’il l’a rédigé alors qu’il traversait des moments de souffrance intenses :
La Vie est un Miroir
Hubert Heine

La vie est un voyage parsemé de moments de lumière et d’ombre. Elle nous met à l’épreuve, mais c’est dans ces contrastes que réside sa beauté. Chaque sourire, chaque larme, chaque doute construit notre authenticité.

Être honnête avec soi-même, c’est accepter ses forces comme ses failles. C’est pouvoir se regarder dans le miroir sans détourner les yeux. Car la sincérité est le premier pas vers la paix intérieure.

Quand on choisit d’avancer avec le cœur, la vie nous le rend toujours. Elle sourit à ceux qui savent l’aimer malgré ses tempêtes. Et dans chaque rencontre, il existe une promesse de renouveau. Un nouveau regard peut changer tout un horizon.

Il ouvre la porte à des aventures inattendues, vibrantes et sincères. Ces instants deviennent des chapitres précieux de notre histoire. Ils nous rappellent que rien n’arrive par hasard. La vie est un miroir : elle reflète ce que nous lui offrons. Alors offrons-lui notre lumière, pour qu’elle continue de briller à travers nous.


Debate at the EU Parliament

Hubert Heine - 2013
Proud to say my father, Hubert Heine, recently organized and animated an important public debate at the European Parliament between a group of European citizens and Member of the European Parliament Philippe Lamberts to discuss about the following topics: How to improve the European economy, strengthen European democracy, increase European citizens' rights and reorganize the European institutions...

It's the second time my father gets involved in such an important event. Two years ago, he organized a debate with several other Members of the European Parliament including Louis Michel, Isabelle Durant and Mathieu Grosch. I really admire my father's will to defend European Citizens' rights...

Hubert Heine and Philippe Lamberts
Our conference room at the Parliament
Hubert Heine, Louis Michel, Pol Guillaume at the 2011 event
Me fooling around after the event

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Here is my photo report of the meeting at the European Parliament (Brussels) between representatives of the Braives municipality, Belgium (a very important place in my heart) and several European deputies. The gathering was meant to improve the relationship between Braives and European institutions. This is actually something really new and amazing that might have huge repercussions for many little cities in Europe. See my artistic photos taken in Braives.

Pol Guillaume (Mayor of Braives), Louis Michel (Eurodeputy)

Louis Michel (Eurodeputy)

Meeting room with members of the Parliament and delegation of Braives

Mathieu Grosch (Eurodeputy)

Isabelle Durant (Eurodeputy)

Pol Guillaume (Mayor of Braives), Louis Michel (Eurodeputy),
Hubert Heine (Coordinator)

Mathieu Grosch, Louis Michel (Eurodeputies)

Debate in the Meeting room

Debate in the Meeting room

Visit of the European Parliament with our guide Daniel Denruyter

Visit of the European Parliament with our guide Daniel Denruyter

Thomas Laruelle, secretary of Braives municipality

Debate in the Meeting room

Pol Guillaume (Mayor of Braives), Louis Michel (Eurodeputy)

Giorgio Dormal (European lobbyist)

Cécile Bataille, alderwoman of Braives

Debate in the Meeting room

Debate in the Meeting room

Debate in the Meeting room

Visit of the European Parliament

Mathieu Grosch (Eurodeputy)

Louis Michel (Eurodeputy)

Inside the Parliament's infrastructure

Inside the Parliament's infrastructure

Inside the Parliament's infrastructure

© 2011 - Ben Heine
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This is a portrait of my dad, Hubert Heine, when he was exactly my age... (See the old fashioned shirt) : ) My father didn't write the beautiful poem below but he used to tell me very similar things. Thanks Dad.
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By Rudyard Kipling (1910)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master;
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run--
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And--which is more--you’ll be a Man, my son!

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--> The poem appeared on poetry.about.com
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