For Sylvain Landry’s challenge this week, we should look at the world from a child’s position. And indeed, my Mille looks much bigger than he was. His height was 48 centimetres – and the mountains somewhat higher…
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?
- 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!
- 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.
- Something I wish I could like is cleaning the house – what great fun there would be every week!
- 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…
- 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.
- 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….
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.
Travel theme: Fierce
I am sorry, Ailsa, but I seldom photograph things fierce…these are both good humoured of course – but at least they might Look fierce!
Go to more accurate fierceness here.
Silent Sunday
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.
Cee’s B&W Challenge: Two Different Things
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Two different things or the number two
Mmm, different, but maybe work well together. Visit Cee for more!
Thursday Thoughts – The Black Cat
The gracious black cat immediately came up to me. And he would not leave me alone.
No, he did not want to…
In Western history, black cats have often been looked upon as a symbol of evil omens and friends of witches. In Sweden, as in most of Europe, a black cat is considered a symbol of bad luck, especially if one crosses paths with a person, which is believed to be an omen of misfortune and death.
But the folklore surrounding black cats varies from culture to culture. According to Wikipedia, The Scots believe that a strange black cat’s arrival to the home signifies prosperity. In Celtic mythology, a fairy known as the Cat Sìth takes the form of a black cat. Black cats are also considered good luck in the rest of Britain and Japan. A belief I would like to argue for, is that a lady who owns a black cat will have many suitors…
I find black cats extremely attractive to the eye…but sometimes they have a menacing look, don’t they? My students were always treated to Edgar Allan Poe’s short horror story The Black Cat. Read it if you haven’t already – it is a classic.
For more facts about folklore and superstition about black cats, click here.
CFFC: Purples
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Purples
Purples for Cee – one of my favourite colours, especially on flowers.
Wordless Wednesday
Ant Invasion and a Teenage Party
At least once a year we visit Wanås, the park and the new installations. A must!
Rafael Gómezbarro’s installation ”Casa tomada” wants to portray the stream of refugees in the world, where the climbing ants are symbols for the hard working migrant. The installation comes from Bogota´and the house of parliament there.
Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg are the artists behind the installation ”In dreams”. You can hear the sound coming through the forest before you find it. Want to party?
The artists compares this to Alice in Wonderland…
…and I cannot but agree
you meet creepy beings…
…and feel dizzy, like in a dream…
Want to know a bit more about Wanås and the exhibition? Click here.
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