a new year

…. and I hope that will we get things a little better this year, but I wouldn’t count on it. But we have the chance NOW!!!! I hope that 2018 will touch us and the world gently – and that we …

why isn’t the questions asked today???

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” Primo Levi … there are times when I really feel …

20 very special minutes …

the other evening I was waiting for 21.12 train back to Landskrona from Helsingborg .. but it was running late and there on platform 1 was a young man in a wheelchair. We started talking first about the train that …

some amazing people I just met

This post I first published in Sept. 2013, after I visit NYC for my 65th birthday. I’m born 11th of Sept. The 9/11 Memorial was an eye opener for me …. there in a middle of a massive building site …

to make a difference

I published this post 2 years ago, but during breakfast this morning for some reason I thought about it and searched for it to read it again – so have I decided to post it again because I think we …

cee’s fun foto challenge – tombstones and cemeteries

If there is one place in the world, where I feel total peace and in a harmony with myself … it must be at the Jewish Cemetry in Warsaw. Can spend hours there and when leaving I feel so peaceful.  …

weekly photo challenge – collage

“Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.” Anne Sexton A collage of wishes hanging in 14 wish apple trees at Wanås Castle, in Southern Sweden …. when in 2011  Yoko Ono had her …

hard to find the right words …

for what happened last evening in Manchester – I was on a concert myself in Copenhagen and I don’t dare to think what an easy target we would have been. There is so much evil out there and the worst …

stockholm says thank you to the police

The people of Stockholm has today said thank you to the police …. for their fantastic work during after the terrible event yesterday afternoon, when a hijacked truck ploughed through a busy pedestrian street in Stockholm. People have started to …

together we will take care of sweden

“I went a while ago, down to the barricades next to the site of the horrific attack and laid flowers and lit a candle for those who died or were injured today. To all of you who have lost someone …

we will wake up to a different sweden tomorrow!!!

So now Stockholm and Sweden have been hit …  6 years ago we had a suicide bomber on the same street … during the Christmas shopping, but the vest didn’t work, so he went into a side street to fix it …

weekly photo challenge – atop

“You can’t take the sky from me.” Joss Whedon I’m not very good with highest .. and going to the top .. on things, isn’t my thing. I have images from Victoria Peak in Hong Kong … but that will …

weekly photo challenge – wish

“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.” Walter Savage Landor “I wish that we were kind to each other” (mine) “I wish that it wasn’t so hard to travel by car” (Majken, 5 months) …

every leaf carry a name – raoul wallenberg holocaust memorial park, budapest

“Any man can make a difference” Raoul Wallenberg Raoul Wallenberg Holocaust Memorial Park in Budapest is a MUST for me as Swede, he is one of my heroes. Men like him are where my belief lays in – people that make a …

let us never forget- shoes on the donau bank, budapest

“The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.” Israel Horovitz I didn’t really want to visit too many memorials while I visit Budapest, but there was 3 on my list: Carl Lutz, Raoul Wallenberg Holocaust Memorial Park …