Category Film and photo
Bless them with your patience!
This music video was inspired by family videos and photos, the song EmmyLou by the young, brilliant and inspiring women Johanna and Klara Söderström in First Aid Kit and by my creative children. My children’s (and other children’s) astonishing eagerness to learn, their creativity and their joy of learning has been inspiring and is still […]
Coffee rituals essential for a good life!
We have certain rituals when we make our 10 o’clock coffee – which here in the Swedish-Finnish archipelago is called “middle coffee” – and our afternoon coffee. FIKA as it is called in Sweden, which is actually the coffee itself not what you have WITH your coffee as I thought before I heard a radio program […]
Children do not want entertainment but simple pleasures in nature
According to Sainsbury’s Kid’s Simple Pleasures Index – yes the British food chain) poll with 1,500 children aged 5-11 nationwide children want to enjoy nature on their free time. They asked the children to rank their favorite “summer frolics across criteria such as how much fun it is, how happy it makes them feel and how special […]
Singing for Solidarity
Pete Seeger turend 94 yesterday and we were singin If I had a hammer in a tower in Italy to celebrate him and his life. One of music’s most powerful attributes is its ability to bring people together around a cause, a theme Bill Moyers has explored many times with a variety of artists. […]
Hashem: A Survivor’s Story from the Anfal Campaign
A reblogged text by Karzan Kardozi about Survivor’s from the Anfal Camaign in Irak 1988. The film One Thousand and One Apples tells a very sad but important story about Saddam Husseins mass murdering in Irak 1988. We owe it the ones who died to not let the world forget these stories and the people working democratically and peacefully […]
They (or we all) have been Trumped no. 2
Isn’t it funny that Scrooge McDuck the cartoon character created in 1947 by Carl Barks and licensed by The Walt Disney Company somehow resembles Donald Trump! A coincidence? It probably is his favorite character (and role model) of the ones Carl Barks drew. Maybe Trump has not understood Bark’s sarcasm but took the cartoons as instruction books. Scrooge McDuck is: an elderly Scottish anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, […]
Happy Spring – finally!
Yes here it is – spring! I feel optimistic even if we still have 40 cm snow in our yard. But the days are longer and the light is brighter and the sun is warmer. No one says this better than Inge Löök!
Trasiga barnskor i Sverige!
Somliga men inte alla fattiga barn går med trasiga skor. Man gör ju allt man kan för att verka “normal” och inte väcka uppmärksamhet så har man ett par hela skor tar man de skorna på sig när man går till skolan, om man inte har ett par hela skor kanske man blir borta från […]
Scandinavian countries are fulfilling the American dream better than America these days
CNN reports this morning: The truth is, Scandinavian countries are fulfilling a huge part of the American dream better than America these days. Thankfully, we’re still an innovation powerhouse, and we need to spend more on R&D rather than cutting those budgets. And perhaps we need to target some of that innovative thinking towards restoring the […]
Why Even Tragedy Gets A Laugh
Flora Lichtman and Ira Flatow talks to comedian Tig Notaro who found out she had breast cancer and incorporated the news into her stand-up routine—and got quite a few laughs from the audience. Robert Provine joins the discussion and talks about the origins of laughter, what separates the amusing from the truly funny, and why even […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 