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Easter

This Easter, I’ve felt at odds with the passing of time. It often frustrates me, the things we need to do again and again. The relentlessness of the everyday. How I can feel so pleased with myself, when I’ve managed to eat breakfast, or washed the dishes, or showered, or gone to sleep – onlyContinue reading “Easter”

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”

Settling

From the notebook, written October 4th 2022 A year and seventeen days ago, I was interviewed for a postdoc in Bergen. With six days left to final thesis submission, I had very little time to prepare for the interview and I remember feeling a bit unhinged. I made some jokes. Said something about research. AndContinue reading “Settling”

In transit

I From the notebook, written February 27th 2022 It’s been a while. I became a Doctor of Philosophy. I was exhausted, after the defense. I could not feel for weeks. On New Year’s Eve, I got appendicitis. That, I could feel. Spending the last hours of 2021 in terrible pain in the emergency room, alone,Continue reading “In transit”

[interlude]

I will begin with a new format here soon. I just need to figure it out first. In the meantime: My dinner spot on sunny evenings, at the end of the mountain trail that starts three blocks from my new apartment in my new home town Bergen, Norway.

start: Botanic Garden Stories

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Jardin botanique du Parc de la Tête d’Or

Written in October 2018 The botanic garden lies in the Parc de la Tête d’Or in the center of Lyon. The park covers 117 hectares, and the botanic garden only makes up a small portion of that – but the variety of trees, shrubs and water bodies in the rest of the park makes itContinue reading “Jardin botanique du Parc de la Tête d’Or”

a botanical moment

Written in October 2018 Botanical garden of Lyon. There is something special about the stillness in a garden located in the middle of the city. The trees painted yellow by autumn, being reflected in the milky turquoise water of the lake. I can sense, more than hear, the bustle of the streets behind the treesContinue reading “a botanical moment”

Jardin botanique de la Charme in Clermont-Ferrand

Written in October 2018 Situated on the same street as the Michelin head office in an otherwise sleepy residential area of brutalist apartment complexes in suburban Clermont-Ferrand, the tiny Jardin botanique de la Charme is easy to miss. It is small, and at a first glance it looks neglected and forgotten, full of empty flowerbedsContinue reading “Jardin botanique de la Charme in Clermont-Ferrand”

The Botanical Garden of the Bathing Friends in Visby

A text written in early September 2018 Perched between the low medieval buildings of old Visby and the steel-grey Baltic lies a tiny botanic garden. For being so small, though, it manages to accommodate a great number of different plants. Cared for by the association DBW (De Badande Wännerna = the bathing friends), it hasContinue reading “The Botanical Garden of the Bathing Friends in Visby”