every morning i take a walk from the hotel to buy bananas and milk for the team. this is who and what i meet on the way. it is so refreshing to leave the sterile environment of a hotel and be back in real life again. also it gives me a moment to be on my own, to breathe, to think quietly.
by now it became a part of the morning routine, and the young boys who are loading the trucks with wheelchairs are screaming after me ‘bananas, bananas, bananas, how are the bananas?’.
that i would be mesmerized by sports? these guys i am caring for are unbelievably quick, strong, flexible and versatile. spending so much time with sportsmen is quite an experience, and being responsible for 16 men/boys is extremely challenging. that’s why i am not present online these days, but instead i am buying bananas, ordering antibiotics, loading wheelchairs, coordinating buses, sharing out sandwiches, pouring glasses of o’boy and frying my brain while shifting between swedish, dutch, hebrew and english. you know, each language brings out a different side of me i have noticed. there is something very fascinating about experiencing all four sides simultaneously.
i hope you are all well out there. kisses and hugs. now back to my boys! (who by the way won their first game against the germans and i have to admit i was very excited…)
i have been caring for my close friend, who is freshly pregnant and with terrible nausea all day long. so we are watching movies, at least one a day. (frankie and johnny for instance used to be my favorite movie when i was younger, and it still makes my heart melt…) and we eat a lot of food and talk for hours. she gets the weirdest cravings, and since she doesn’t manage to eat much due to her nausea, we try to provide her with what she desires when she desires it. like homemade chips, plum cake, pear pies and red meat.
so after a few days of that (plus mangos and chickens and pumpkins and wild children and messages and beautiful people and all that jazz) it will be a drastic change to enter my new and temporary job as a contact person for the swedish team of european wheelchair basketball championship. gulp! keep your fingers crossed for me, will you?!
august came and went. looking at these pictures i realize that august is often the time i travel back, to visit family and friends here and there on this planet. last year august was spent in a community workshop and that’s when i really got my eyes open to the power of a group. this year it seems like i am shifting between one extreme to the other, either very much on my own or 24/7 surrounded by lovely people. how was your august?
welcome september. i can smell you in the air already.
to the broom and the bride. and what a bride! watching her dance all night was pure joy. and i had my share of acqua di cedro and three portions of dessert and a whole lot of dancing on top of that. so i haven’t photographed much, only when i sat down on the dance floor to rest my belly, and then i mainly aimed for the bridal feet…
how about some coexistence? seems like we are having issues with that one on different levels.
i found some more ducks. these ones look slightly mad. and except for that i have been working as a painter in a woodshop for two full days. painting pieces of wood that later will become a yurt, which is one of my dream ‘houses’. there is a very special energy in a place which is round and not square, like we are used to. anyhow, it is a very good change for me to work with my hands for a couple of days. these somewhat repetitive and not too complicated tasks are great to empty your head with. later i was doing some sewing and grinding too, and it reminded me that there are plenty of fun stuff to do in this world except for dancing. do you know what you would love to do or what you would love to try if you wouldn’t do what you are doing?
hey guys, i am going to a wedding tomorrow, and i seem to have suppressed the fact that one is supposed to dress up for those events… luckily i found a bag of old dresses under my bed (!), now the question is, which one should i wear? or none of them? please be honest and help a not-so-lady- like lady to make the best out of the situation!
*i seem to forget i have this blog*i crave rice and vegetables all the time since i am back*i enjoyed this book so very much*i made four jars of pear jam yesterday*once again i fell in love with al pacino in this old movie*i dream of traveling to japan (again)and india*i was thrilled to read about your preferences of living either alone or communal*i feel very grateful for being alive, as cheesy as it may sound*♥*
one day while being in sweden we took a boat to this tiny island. it was raining cats and dogs, very cosy in a wet way. i thought it could be nice to live on an island without any car traffic. surrounded by the ocean.
but no man is an island and i would only do it with a bunch of lovely people. and i come back to the same point of realization, which is that i don’t think it suits me to live alone anymore. anyone out there dreaming of living in a community?
