Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday – July 10 -12 Soderala, Sweden The sun was high, the lake waters lapped gently at the sandy shore. Victor had taken his rightful place as DJ for the day out to the lake, blasting classics on our corner of the small yet nice beach. I was lounging on the sand,…
Category: Live Logs
Days 23 – Activating Compassion
Sunday July 9 There was a distance between you and Ia misunderstanding once but nowwe look it in the eye Rascal Flatts, “Life is a Highway” She had a long night. From the bed and breakfast’s whirlwind welcome to the critic from across the cape, Joey had dealt with pretty much every disaster under the…
Day 21 – 22 Changing Tides
Destiny can be changed. But youhave to have the will to change it.Even if it requires sacrifice. – September, “Fringe” Season 5 What we believe becomes a part of who we are. So wedefend our beliefs like we would defend our own flesh and blood.But beliefs are not who you are. They are ephemeral things,and…
Days 20 – Girl Power
In which I take a day trip into town with my housemate on an unbeknownst flat tire but that’s fine, because I found jeans that actually fit, so I consider that a win. Thursday July 6, 2023 Say what you will. The 90’s was a lot of things – middle parts, cargo pants three sizes…
Day 17 – 18 Independence Day
Monday and Tuesday July 3 and 4 Life has to go on. We can’t live our whole lives in fear. – from the film “Stranded” Monday The Fourth of July is for Americans what Midsommar is for Swedes. An excuse to get together and picnic, relax outdoors, and celebrate in general merriment as a community…
Days 12 – 14 – In Medias Res
Wednesday June 28 – Friday June 30 – Soderhamn, Sweden Idyllic pastures. Cheery red and yellow farmhouses with potted flowers dotting the porches. Trees so green you can smell the freshness of them. Horses grazing, their coats glossy and freshly brushed. All this I spy from the bus window, eager for my first sight of…
Day 11 – Work Stay my Days Away
Tuesday June 27 Aight fam, here’s the lowdown: I love tomatoes. Be sliced, diced, pureed or sautéed, in a box, with a fox – I’ll eat tomatoes any way, whadda ya say. But I have re-planted so many tomato plants in the past 36 hours, if I had to tie a stalk to a post…
Day 7 – A Midsommar Night’s Dream
Friday June 23 – Midsommar Eve Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you, in my respect, are all the world. Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me? – William Shakespeare When…