Talking to Strangers
A good way to practice conversations
Looking back at a Date and a Year
I got a new Facebook friend soon after I had left my job as a health visitor in March 2014. She then wrote that “This date four years ago my beloved boyfriend died”. I reacted to that update and we got friends. My husband and I soon went to see her as we normally stay in Copenhagen close to her […]
The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen
It’s the World’s Live Ballet Day and our royal ballet sent a “live” scene from the “Giselle” production. The ballet master Nicolaj Hübbe instructed two male solo dancers in their part in one of the acts. The studio is small and is the place where many famous ballets were created under the roof of the theatre. When my parents […]
Weekend Coffee Share on Encouragements
If we were having coffee I would tell you that I am thinking about the cultural differences in Denmark my small country. I have a few posts on this subject if you would like to see them. I am lucky to have live in different places countries and that’s when you see the differences more clearly. I follow a plan for […]
“The Green Stripe” by Henri Matisse
My father kept a key behind a small picture painted by Matisse. It was the second key to the door from the cellar and out. We always got into our house that way. The first key sat in the lock inside the door. The extra key was used when the family went to bed at night. Did you lock the […]
Dislikes & Likes
The Dislikes To see a pregnant and smoking woman in a pedestrian street in my home town Beautiful baroque opera music with singers wearing vulgar costumes “The Fairy Queen” by Henry Purcell People talking loud in their phones on any subject while you hear the counterpart in a bad loud-speaker When at our hotel breakfast room other guests insist […]
Reunion in Copenhagen
Today I met some of my classmates from our “Gymnasium” time. We graduated 46 years ago. A few came to our gathering for the first time and memories from the time as 16-19 years old comes up to the surface. I found it so emotional that I left a bit early to enjoy the buildings and streets of the Copenhagen I still love. Twice I heard church bells ringing.
St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh
Imagine to walk in the places where people have gathered for nearly a thousand years and think about the ways they created these big masterpieces of architecture
Created in His Image
You’ve heard it and so have I, “If God is God, why is there so much ________ in the world?” You’ve also likely heard one of the common responses… “Because of man’s choice.”, “Because man is sinful.” or “Because of sin in the world.” There are a number of similar responses, and neither are necessarily wrong, but I read something […]
15 years ago
Let social media inspire you https://mobile.twitter.com/USATODAY/status/774242852146524160 I was at a parking lot in my home town Herning in Denmark. Time with us was five p.m and I sat in my car just wanting to hear the news. That was when the Western world shook and the terror attacks on the World Trade Center happened. The reporters voice was trembling and my life came on a halt. Personally I went through a very tough time with especially my youngest boy who would turn fifteen in October 2001. He had problems due to having experimenting with cannabis and maybe other things too. I think he never felt at home after we had moved to Denmark six years earlier and he like my other children had been neglected by their father who sometimes showed them attention and at other times treated them cruelly. Years of attrition on my life had also made me fail in many ways especially in not being able to communicate properly with my children in their teens. I felt the heavy burden from the terror attack and that it meant a boundary had been crossed at the same time where I would have to search for my son early and late. The next morning I was awakened at five o’clock by the local police and the kind police officer asked me if I knew that my son was at a room for homeless people in Herning. […]
From one Heart to Another 