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many shades of blue and green the past few days. even though yesterday it was grey grey grey and 30mm of rain. i made three pots of blueberry jam. but today there’s a warm sun. warm enough that i could premiere my dotted dress. and i was reading about the swedish flora.

one more week to go and i am starting to worry a tiny bit already. just never seem to be ready to go back. i guess these past few years of short vacations are starting to pay of. i simply never have the chance to feel i got enough of sweden. or enough of not working. though this morning my body begged for action and i did sun salutations and some stretches to get back into my skin again.

a few tracks that kept me up today. this one has an intro that reminds me of roxette, funny, since i am not a fan… and something swedish with sad words. and something very happy to dance along with. kiss and bye.

waiting for the elk

 

i am back a little bit. after a few road trips, one birthday, an exhibition, some berry plucking, rediscovering being an auntie, and eating huge amounts of knäckebröd. among other things. oh, sweden is lovely. for those of you who haven’t been here yet, come! and for those of you who have been already, come again…

and today autumn might have started. but i guess i shouldn’t complain. it has been warm enough to enter both the sea and a few lakes. which i haven’t done in this part of the world in a long, long time. vacation is a good thing.

tonight i sang these two lullabies for my niece and nephew, one dutch one, and some cohen songs aswell. and i took the night shift, which means i will share a bed with those two sweethearts. i hope i will manage. goodnight!

vacation

 

i am officially on vacation! i hardly believe it. from one reality to the other, i am now in sweden. it feels so good to be here. i have decided to enjoy, chill out and minimize.

so, to do that i am planning a phone free week. and compared to my usual internet addiction, i am thinking of going down to part-time! so, i am still around, but just more quiet…

wish you all beautiful days.

miss birthday pink

lief, ik wens je een heel mooie dag. ik zou een cake voor je willen bakken, met veel aardbeien. ik mis je en ik hou van je.

my lovely ingetje has her birthday today! hip hip hoera! hip hip hurra!

venice in a day

our free day was spent in venice. quite a romantic place, if one can look beyond the incredible amount of tourists, shopping as if there is no tomorrow. sometimes it saddens me, aren’t we more inspired than that? can’t we think of more interesting things to do in life?

tonight is our premier. a close look into the happy end. forza!

still here

   

it is a long time we are here already. i am loosing track of days and time. but one two three four five more days and then vacation. i dream so much during the night that i feel exhausted when i wake up. holland lost last night. i had a little bet with myself, if they would win, i was allowed to something i wanted to do, and if they’d loose, i wasn’t allowed. so i didn’t do it. what i wanted to do. funny ways of making decisions. if you don’t have a dice at hand.

the girl

i was wondering what she thought about. she looked so preoccupied. but when she left she smiled and waved happily.

i am once more being almost too busy to think. still, the mind keeps working. and i guess that is a good thing. the blogosphere is more quiet these days, everybody is taking a vacation. i have a countdown to mine. enjoy your weekend! tomorrow>holland in the finals!

drinking grappa on the bridge

that is what you do in bassano de grappa. after work. you drink grappa on the bridge. we didn’t. we had spritz instead. i wish i could show you the view from that bridge, but landscape pictures seldom give a fair impression of reality. it was a little piece of heaven, anyhow, this moment.

i see a pattern

 

i am picturing dani while dani is picturing me. i guess we are both hiding behind the camera. today mine stopped focusing. i cry dry tears. my camera might be one of my best friends. well not really. but somewhat. at least one i spend a lot of time with. i carry it with me almost every where i go.

i just drank a lot of spritz, when in rome do as the romans, and can hardly think straight. so i will leave it here. buonanotte.

good things are going to happen

    

we have our private spaceship in italy. a spaceship which belongs to a grappa distillery. quite odd. we do weird, funny things in this spaceship. before that we almost drown while performing in the water. a whole new sensation, moving in water. bruised and beat by the end of the day. but italy is sweet.

and they say good things are going to happen. just be patient.

favorites

you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime..

white winter hymnal

quick musical greeting from italy, i will get back later.

p.s la familia, i forgot my swedish sim card somewhere, so for now there is no way to contact me except for via the mail.

bacio.

on the road, again.

 

i am leaving to italy today. we will have two weeks of i guess very intense rehearsing and performing. and then i am going to sweden. for holiday! god bless holidays. or bless someone else for all i care. as long as they happen every now and then, the holidays.

i am leaving while being busy with the idea of leaving in general. there is a lot of things to think about connecting to leaving. what we need and don’t need. what we desire for and not. to where we belong. i can’t seem to fit all those aspects into my mind. they leek out through my ears and pour down my body. and the mind keeps working, even when we are on a holiday…

wish you all a sweet sunday. i will see you in italy.

buongiorno!

weekword:nothing

i have been twisting my mind, squeezing the last drips of juice out of my brain with this word. nothing. is no thing. a person? a void? a black hole? abyss? everything? in the semi late night hour this is what came into my thoughts. hanna treated me with the challenge, and through her you can find other interpretations. any further thoughts on nothing?

happy birthday

lilla finaste e, inte för att du läser bloggar än, men hur gick det till? du var ju alldeles nyss precis såhär liten. nu har du fyllt två och jag vet inte vilka ord du har lärt dig, om du tycker om sagor eller hur du ser ut när du är arg. och du är förmodligen inte särskilt medveten om att du har en moster långt bort som nästan pussade ihjäl dig när du var ett litet knytt. grattis på födelsedagen!

my sisters son turned two yesterday. and i feel absent.