pink poppy

I'm looking for the organic road
I'm searching for patterns to show me the way
I'm walking that way
it's a pattern
an organic show
I'm looking

progress VI

My symbol of spirit in this Rebirth piece is in place. Three prints with yellow pink and blue.

dream

Todays drawing challenge is dream at clever Nadine's
I didn't draw,
but I dream...

about silence.
the sounds of silence

the only noice allowed / aloud in my dream are sounds of Nature
like childrens voices and whispers of wind.

map

This weeks host of drawing challenge is perfect Hi Happy Panda with map. If You haven´t been visiting Rachel - GO THERE! She shows a wonderful view of Life on her blog.

Now for the map, I´m showing some old work that is still in progress. It´s old as in I started it eleven years ago and Old as in the deepth of knowledge that comes from it, as it comes to me from Timelessness. They are sort of maps or compasses. I often do metaphysical maps. I don´t really know yet how to talk about it/them. And I´m quite brave to show this work... I have rarely shown it for a decade. They are here as well.
The third pic is a map of colour nuances. I save my mixtures in a cover. I am strictly bound to some of the nuances that my inner maps show me. So I really need to know how I got there, at least practically in the mixture process. Because there is no way (yet) for me to theoretically describe or lead the way in or out of my maps, or is there?

I´ll come back with a translation of the first pic.
Now off to the forest, we´ra having a barbecue with some friends. Sweet sunday!

the river

Jag flyter på Kristus, floden.
Det lergula gyllene vattnet.
Jag knäpper mina händer ovanför mitt huvud.
Armarna formas till ett öga, ansiktet dess pupill.
Ur djupet av mina anletsdrag minns jag
resans fasta punkt;
rörelsen.

I float on Christ, the river.
The ochre golden water.
I fold my hands above my head.
Arms in the shape of an eye, face as a pupil.
From the depth of my features, remembrance
the secure spot of the journey;
the movement.

circle

I´m trying to be in the circle of Trust.

cottage love

For some time ago I promised Gina to show my drawings of our allotment garden cottage.
We had a tiny "faluröd" / swedish red cottage on our little allotment ground before and it was falling to pieces. So we decided to build a new one. I saved the door and the two windows with glazing bars. The cottage is the same size plus 1 meter wider for a garden tool store with entrance from a dubbel door on the right. On the left of the door we bought two old windows to have a glass corner, it´s helpful when pre-germinating and also a wonderful wiev out in the garden (thanks Per for the idea). The width of the only room inside is exactly the length of a bed. Perfect for relaxing and to bring a cup of tea. The garden is about 20 meters from our appartment just across the street and then a path in to the allotment area.
It would have been a hard time for me to manage life in an appartment without this garden. (I´m really a forest kind of a person.)
We painted the house with falu black paint. The windows and frames are sun-yellow and gold-ocher linseed oil paint.
Here some pics from the inside. My husbands pics from the allotment garden.

I´m so happy that we conducted this life-affirming project!
A huge Thank You, to the ones involved!

continue

Life continues
every heartbeat
every drop of rain
every now and then
all included
everything
every
thing
anything can sing.

angle

reflect
reflect and
change
change angle.

the
the way
the way I
the way I see
the way I see things
Everything has different angles
Everything is three dimensional at the least.
Everything is not always what it seems

when I look at You
when I look at You I see You and
maybe I don´t see what You see
in Your mirror mirror...
change angle

I see You and
I see Your layers
don´t be afraid
You are beautiful.

weekword: simplicity

Well Happy New Year You All!

to start the new year here Christine invited me for weekword, I couldn´t resist.
But I feel as I have nothing to say. I´m simply still waiting for the words to gain. It could also be the feeling of having too much to say, as if the words are in a hive. Unable to be captured. The paradox of talking perhaps?

Still in my mind I believe that important words are paradoxes, always interesting. As in the word Simplicity everything holds that is not simple, not light, not easy. And if You can grab hold to those paradoxes in a simple way You gain, You gain Simplicity to hard stuff and that might be the bonus win of this word. Does it make any sense?
I hope You hear me, it´s like my voice is really tiny.

All Good and Peace now in 2011. Simplicity to You my fellow beings.

bun

The first snow disappears before it has a chance to lay down and rest.

It gives us a chance to lay down and rest.

So we´ll cosy up inside today, and maybe have some cardamom buns!

Have a lovely weekend You all!

att få ge / to get to give

Att ge för att ge eller att ge för att få

vi behöver nog tänka på det

därför att ge för att få är inte att få men

att ge för att ge är att få.

To give to give or to give to get

we need to think about that

´cause to give to get isn´t to get but 

to give to give is to get.

honey

A cup of warm milk and honey is a cup of kindness.

pic by husband

ljus / candle

Jag har smugit in i trötthet

i trötthet bor tystnad

en öronbedövande tystnad

en öronbedövande trötthet

en trött tystnad

en bön

jag vet att ljuset vaktar min dröm

en öronbedövande dröm

en drömd tystnad

en tyst dröm.

I´ve sneaked in to tiredness

in tiredness silence lives

a deafening silence

a deafening tiredness

a tired silence

a prayer

I know that candles guard my dream

a deafening dream

a dreamed silence

a silent dream.

Lyssna / Listen to: Melanie Safka with "Candles in the rain".

Can´t but love her!

spirit

The spirit of a phrase is to be used
use me
says the phrase
to the spirit
and the spirit of the phrase is.

vespa

Smala gator fordrar små fordon.
och kolla FÄRGKOMBINATIONEN!

Narrow streets claims small vehicles.
and check out that COLOR COMBINATION!

by the way Nina Simone, I bet You need to check her out today.

Roma

Some more colors of this amazing place...

paus

Min studio är nerpackad. Det renoveras och byts stammar i huset. Avloppsrör ska plockas ut ur min fina vägg. Först hade jag panik, ingenstans att jobba. Men när väl allt var nermonterat och undanstuvat så spreds ett stort lugn. ingenstans att jobba. en paus. en välbehövd

rakt igenom rakt igenom rakt igenom mig.

Vi har varit i Rom. Några dagar i Rom. Ett trolleri. packa, flyga, förflytta sig. mångfald och förändring

rakt igenom rakt igenom rakt igenom mig.

Dessutom det där med att vara mamma. som man så intensivt går igenom när barnet fyller år. mamma

rakt igenom rakt igenom rakt igenom mig.

My studio is all packed in boxes. It´s to be renovated, the house and drain pipes are taken out of my nice walls. At first I panicked, nowhere to work. But when all was well stowed away, a great calm was spread. nowhere to work. a paus. a well-needed

right through right through right through me.

We´ve been in Rome. A few days in Rome. It´s like magic. to pack, to fly, movement. diversity and change

right through right through right through me.

Besides, the notion about being a mother. that You so intense go through on Your childs birthday. mother

right through right through right through me.

ukulele and hat

Isn´t this just the best pic ever? My four-year old son took it, it makes me so happy. It´s one of his best friends with an ukulele and a matching hat.

simplicity

Kökshanddukens enkla skönhet.
The simple beauty of a kitchen towel.