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The rain is pouring down, and I feel like I’ve finally stopped running. I am here now, ready to start something new. Skarpnäck is so beautiful this time of year. Especially when it’s raining. The colors become so rich. The air full of smells.

And suddenly everything is in flower. While I was busy working, spring unfolded. The wood anemones in the oak grove by Kräftriket. The plum and cherry trees all over Skarpnäck. You know, that sweet, faint smell that you have to really focus on to sense. Mingled with heat leaving the earth after a full dayContinue reading “Monday the twenty-seventh”

That sleep can be so hard to come by, sometimes. Especially when there are so many things going on in a life.

I had 69 new e-mails in my inbox when I got home.

And this morning, I woke up to the fairies dancing. – : o : – In the afternoon, it hailed again. I love the sound of the hail against the glass roof. And how the shyly spring green lawn outside the windows gets white contours.

The sun is going down and the birds have gone bananas, singing. So many melodies, all at once. The sounds here. Earlier today, it hailed. We were sitting in the glass veranda, and the pearls of ice hitting the glass ceiling made for such a harmonious soundtrack. The monotony allowing erratic and ambivalent thoughts toContinue reading “#29: Cottage romanticism II (March 31st)”

Driving out to the cottage through the March rain, Dries in the passenger seat feeling carsick. There were cranes on a newly turned field. Spring is here, gray and beautiful. And then sitting in an armchair, with the warmth of the fire and the literature podcast Lundströms Bokradio in my ears. People talking about WernerContinue reading “#26: Cottage romanticism (March 30th)”

The belated birthday party was hosted. Theme: the 1980’s. We had a wonderful mix of neon-colored leggings, leather jackets, dark eye make-up and big hairdos. Madonna, Alphaville and Prince. It is a wonderful thing, to have friends come over and just have a good time. And the party never really ended. Some of the guestsContinue reading “#24: 80’s party (March 22nd)”

Happiness is eating breakfast at a Kungsholmen cafe together with Hanna, talking about St. Petersburg futures and Mexico dreams. Happiness is walking among the books at the Stockholm City Library. The physicists talk about parallel universes. For me, every single one of these covers house worlds of their own. It makes my limbs tingle. (IContinue reading “#6: A morning in February (February 25th)”

I just have to say: I have a wonderful dentist. I saw her today and she dug around in my mouth and then she said: “You have beautiful teeth”. Also, the sun has been shining and there are yellow flowers in bloom by the Geoscience building. Although it feels wrong to say it, considering it’sContinue reading “teeth”