Three white weeks...

Three weeks. I have been here for three weeks and 2 days now.
Outside there is snow, melting snow, frozen snow, fresh snow, powdery snow, white snow, grey snow, dripping snow, sticky snow blue snow, brown snow, green snow. Shades of colours I never expected to see in the snow. Bu then - where I come from there has never been much snow, so the colourful development of the snow proceeded a lot faster and un-noticeable. Here in the South of the North, where I am now, you have a lot more time to notice things! I do understand now how the people of the North (the South of the North and the North of the North) can have so many different words for snow. Respect!

So, three weeks of snow.
In the meantime, I have visited some places around, the city of 14 Islands - Stockholm, a course at YIP given by Rembert Biemond about Money, Economics, the meaning of work and the values in our life, my favourite cafe Åsgatan 2 in Järna, the Astrid Lindgren childrens hospital, the Tuesday Nights Choir, and the public lecture tonight by Valentin Vollmer about "The School of Everybody", where everybody is a teacher!

And after each outing, this home has brought me back my calm and energy. When I arrived I was welcomed by the letters V.Ä.L.K.O.M.N.A. on my wall. Welcome! I will keep them there, as this little cottage in the middle of the white fields surrounding Ytter Eneby has always been welcoming to me and has to others. The walls call it out loudly, and now the letters give it literary form. Welcome! Be welcome here, you friends out there! Come by and visit! Sit by the fire with us, enjoy the warmth while it is cold outside. And dream with us of the Spring and the sun and the leaves on trees and warm air!