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I’ve been trying to work on becoming more humble lately. Everyone has talents, and one of mine just happens to be of the kind that is graded and put on paper. In Swedish, there is a term, läshuvud, which translates to “reading head” and basically means that someone has an easy time learning things from booksContinue reading “forgive me my bragging”

Celebrated with mostly old friends, and some new, in Hundby. Herring and potatoes, BBQ and Lina’s amazing cake, schnapps, songs, games, dancing and flower picking. It was chilly, but it didn’t rain. People were happy. And the day was rounded off with a swim together with Ashley and Cecilia. The sun was just about toContinue reading “and we celebrated midsummer”

On the grass in the Vasa park in Norrköping, while eating strawberries, I read a book of poems by Rut Hillarp. It was – – Well, there just are things that cannot be described in prose. Things that need the brief nature of poetry. Where the few few words actually can carry the impossible weight of beingContinue reading “I’ve given you too many sleepless nights”

Friday evening I’m on the train, on my way to Norrköping to visit Jenny. I haven’t been on a long distance train since I came home from Tarfala last August. I like traveling by train. I haven’t gone anywhere since last August, so I haven’t had the chance to choose the train over any otherContinue reading “weekend in Norrköping (June 13-15)”

It’s summer now, but I think I’m still stuck in spring. I think I’m fine and then someone says something that makes me think that I’ve done something wrong and the need to cry returns. I don’t. But parts of me wants to. Anyway, the reason why I’m telling you this is that when I’mContinue reading “oh, you know, time”

On my way to the center today, I saw several groups of high school students on their way to graduation. They’re easy to spot, in their white hats, carrying champagne glasses. It made me think of my own graduation. We’ve had an incredible couple of days now, warm and sunny. Just like when I graduated,Continue reading “the passing of time”

And we define ourselves in the contrast between ourselves and others. Never during my 9 years in a Finnish school did I feel particularly Finnish. There were other people who spoke the language better, whose both parents were Finnish, who might even have been born there. In the Finnish school, I wasn’t particularly Finnish. ButContinue reading “evolving identities”

At the book launch party on Friday, I was reminded of my past. First, there were a couple of people there who went to my high school. My high school was a public inner city school on Söder, the artsy/bohemian/hipster/nowadays heavily gentrified neighborhood in central Stockholm. It has one of the best music programs inContinue reading “definitions of self”

It is cloudy and cold now, but during the end of last week, it was basically summer. I was wearing a dress and a sweater, and didn’t freeze while walking to the tube from Jonas’ release party at around midnight, and on Saturday I went swimming with Lina in Flaten. And on Sunday, I bakedContinue reading “a day in May spent in the royal park”

On Friday, my classmate Jonas had a release party for the book of poems that he had just published. The book is called Lantmäteriet, which means land survey, basically, and his poems are about mapping reality and our relationship to landscapes. Kind of. Among other things. Or I don’t know. I haven’t read all of it yet,Continue reading “at the book release party”