Here’s a taste of my particular flavor of crazy: A couple of weeks ago I received a travel grant to go to Tucson, Arizona, for a workshop in May. My first thoughts? I need to knit something desert-appropriate! To wear at the workshop! And photograph in the desert! I came up with two t-shirt designContinue reading “where my thoughts go”
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From Crete: Books
From the notebook, written October 9th 2022 I drink beer with a view of the ocean and read ”Liv Strömquists astrologi”. A sarcastic graphic novel take on astrology. I laugh out loud to the description of Aquarius: Know-it-all weirdo. Visionary, but mostly through telling other people how they should change the world. Socially awkward. Doesn’tContinue reading “From Crete: Books”
From Crete: Photograph
From the notebook, written October 8th 2022 That smile. In Paleochora, Crete. I’m floating in the Mediterranean waves. I have no sense of time. It hits me: I can’t remember when I was this comfortable spending time with my own thoughts. There’s been so many years of chasing academic achievements, surviving pandemics, recovering. Silences, idlenessContinue reading “From Crete: Photograph”
From Crete: The reading rock
From the notebook, written October 7th 2022 I’m in Paleochora, a small town on the south coast of Crete. I’ve been here before, once at four or five, and once at seventeen. I don’t remember much, though. Not the short but lively stretch of main street that is lined with restaurants and bars. Not theContinue reading “From Crete: The reading rock”
From Crete: Then and now
From the notebook, written October 6th 2022 Yes. I’m on Crete. It’s for a conference, but I decided to come early, and take a couple of days off before. I’ve been to Greece many times, I used to come every other year with my family. The last time, though, was in 2005. That was theContinue reading “From Crete: Then and now”
August eleventh: Re-boot
From the notebook, written August 11th 2022 I It’s 7:36 in the morning as we roll out of Stockholm central station. I enter into that train-travel-state-of-mind. Winding thoughts. We pass the Swedish parliament. I got my voting card ”for Swedes abroad” some time ago, in a couple of weeks I’ll go to the Swedish consulateContinue reading “August eleventh: Re-boot”
apartment garden (i)
122 Today was a crap day for thesis. Today, it snowed – which was quite beautiful to watch through the window, if I’m being honest. But it felt wrong, anyway. But I’m very much enjoying how the returning light has lured my house plants into bloom, pinks and purples. Even a little white. Photos: FalseContinue reading “apartment garden (i)”
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120 My friend Josh messaged me: “Let’s just both remember that it’s only a phd and no one will die if it sucks.” My mantra for the coming five months. I booked the date of my defense today. Photo: Alter Botanischer Garten in Göttingen, Germany, September 2017. Posted on Instagram April 20, 2021.
spring rain
113 I love what the spring rain does to the colors outside my windows. It is raining in Stockholm today and I was sitting in a meeting, listening to a colleague complain about the weather, and I thought: I can’t understand this. Yes, with the non-stop clouds and rain in November, but now? The moistureContinue reading “spring rain”
winter solstice
80 Yesterday was the winter solstice. The longest night, of a year that to many of us has been heavy to carry. Natalia and I felt it needed to be properly celebrated, old school, with a mid-winter blot in the style of our Nordic ancestors – to allow for the new to replace the old,Continue reading “winter solstice”
Katja Malmborg 