Share Your World – 2016 Week 39

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I have never thought that anyone, anywhere, would want to know anything about Me. I share Our world every week – but my Own world…I prefer keeping most of it to myself.  – But now, these questions are put by children! Well, who can resist answering them?

  1. A class I wish I would have taken at Uni, is History. In high school we had such a bad teacher – he even made his tests with 1, X, 2 questions and corrected them by pressing the papers through nails marking the right answers…And I used to Love history!
  2. My favourite comic figure is John Cleese in Fawlty Towers. And we have two Swedish equilibrists who built all their music and all their shows on word juggling  – Povel Ramel and Tage Danielsson. Unfortunately they are not with us anymore. Clever use of words is my favourite fun.
  3. Something I wish I could like is cleaning the house – what great fun there would be every week!
  4. My first crush was on a guy in the class below me. We were 11 and 10. He was soooo good looking with dark hair and brown eyes – unusual in our ordinary Swedish school in the 1960’s, where everybody was fair or a redhead…Kissed we did at a school party…but that really was not very glamorous…
  5. When I was 10, my best friend was Margaret, a girl in the class. We were only about 10 pupils in the class – a small country school.
  6. I am a Libra, and even though I do not believe in astrology, I still enjoy reading about my future…And about the sign itself. Many of the things said about the Libra sign is very much ”me”. So…you never know…maybe there is something….

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Grateful I am for getting an invitation to follow my old friend, soon 80,  to a dinner and meeting for relatives at the home for elderly people (where she now lives). All her relatives are gone and I am her oldest friend. We have been friends for 40 years.

What I am looking forward to right now, is my two children coming home to celebrate our birthdays, mine and my daughter’s.

 

 

WPC: Quest

Cheri Lucas Rowlands encourages us to show a picture of Quest. An almost impossible task…When I think of this word, Quest, I think of all my teaching years in literature and all the glorious quests portrayed there:

 

The Epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian story, The Odyssey by Homer, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Alchemist  by Paulo Coelho and of course The Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling.

In these stories, the protagonists set out to almost impossible tasks, leaving home and safety plunging  into the unknown. So, where am I, a 21st century, middle aged woman, in all this? What is my Quest?

I guess in my little world there are no big ”saving the world”- quests – maybe saving myself quests only. I am constantly searching for and heading towards Inner Peace, being kind and compassionate along the road. I find peace in Nature and through doing good things, helping other fellow passengers on this route.

Hopefully, one day, I will be standing there, feeling that my quest is completed. I will be  completely calm and at peace with myself and the world.

 

 

 

 

 

WPC: Mirror

Mirror, mirror on the wall…Which is the best representation of them all?

This is a challenge where I think most people have many options in their archives – interesting…which ones do we choose?

In the header is a Bilbao photo from opposite the Guggenheim museum. There is this house mirroring a bridge with a red car passing. The other three photos I guess you have seen before – if you are following my blog.

For more of mirrors, click here.

Switzerland, the Fluela Pass in the early morning.

My beloved Mille…looking out for me, walking in the late evening.

Hamnen, Auckland. Vid fiskmarknaden.

 Auckland harbour by the fish market.

WPC: Fun

Great Fun! Fun watching them, fun playing volleyball, fun puppy love…

How I enjoyed this stay with Totti’s little ones! Thank you Michelle, for finally having Fun!

 

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WPC: Narrow

As much as I like the open landscape, I also like things narrow – unless it turns up in nightmares where I am stuck in a narrow tunnel, unable to go either forwards or backwards…

For more things narrow, click here.

 

The tunnel leading to  Cuevas de Valporquero, Spain. In reality – not a nightmare!

WPC: Look up

Look up! This is a very varied challenge with many possibilities. My take is all about nature – even if you might not think so…

In the header, a lamp from Gaudí’s Casa Batllo´in Barcelona. He always used Nature herself as an inspiration. Maybe a drop of water in a pool?

 

A Swedish autumn birch in its splendour – who would not look up?

Great tree ferns, New Zeeland, North Island.

Great tree ferns, New Zeeland, North Island.

New Zealand’s Great fern trees draws your eye…upwards.

Madrid

Madrid

In Madrid my head went dizzy when watching this tree in a spectacular swing…

Madrid

Madrid

And these well dressed trees… I just hade to peep inside for this spectacular view!

For more reasons to look up, click here.

 

WPC: Opposites

 

Opposites…often go well together. For WPC I have chosen the Moroccan desert. Many opposites to be found here. In the header the classic desert/oasis, But, in the second one maybe more subtleties…

More entries here.