Bergianska trädgården in Stockholm – Page 3

the singer

10 Yesterday afternoon, while sitting in my make-shift home office, I heard someone singing through the open balcony door. My balcony faces a patch of pine, aspen and ash trees, and when I peeked out through the window I saw a girl walking around down there. She can’t have been older than thirteen, that awkwardContinue reading “the singer”

Bergius (i)

4 What more suitable botanic garden to start with, than the first one I ever visited as a child, the one run by the university that employs me, the one I stroll through during my lunchtime walks (or at least used to, when going to the office was still a thing one did). Bergius botanicContinue reading “Bergius (i)”

introduction

2 It was during one of those other surreal moments in time, when (forgive me the big word) the Anthropocene came crashing into my life, wrenching emotions out of the rational awareness I’ve had for years: We are in an age of great uncertainty. And things are happening to the biosphere. Stranded in the droughtContinue reading “introduction”