A Journey in Time

Hagar Qim

The temple of Hagar Qim… I taste the word and its funny pronounciation, and laugh with one of my collegues as we try to say it correctly. It is november 2010 and I am in Malta with teachers and students from five European countries in an educational project. This particular day we are on a [...] Read more...

I Am Hip

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It is week 17 of The Challenge… At the beginning of this week I was browsing the clothing stores in Barcelona with my daughter, scanning them for anything that felt new. There were several Hippie stores and even though I found nothing there I hadn’t seen before, I was drawn to them. I had a [...] Read more...

The Great Marriage

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It is Midsummer and a time of celebrating, enjoying the warmth of the sun and the beauty of nature. In Sweden, we celebrate by dancing around the Midsummer pole, covered with birch leaves and decorated with flowers. It looks like a cross with two rings. Most people do this without knowing why. But you don’t [...] Read more...

The Knowing

Path of Beauty 3

It’s week 16 and the slate is cleen. I have no steady job or income anymore. There is a new, unknown road before me. I am celebrating my new freedom with my daughter in Barcelona, where she lives at the moment. She came into my life as part of another mayor transformation. 22 years ago [...] Read more...

The Whirl of Creation

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A spiral is the visual story of the process of creation. Inherent in its whirl is the power for change and progress. In A Visual Gate to Wholeness and Point of No Return, I wrote about the Circle and the Point, two of the shapes in this family of basic geometric shapes. The third, and [...] Read more...

Clothing Essence

lysande blomma

It’s week 15… As a dear, and newly found friend asked me about my designs the other day, I overheard myself saying: ”I have nothing to show you. I have let go of the design concepts I have worked on up til now. I used to make patterns for balance, and focused on negative things [...] Read more...