När vi lägger ut från bryggan och styr kosan mot ön ser jag att de har kommit – de algerna – bland dem troligen också de blågröna algerna. En än så länge tunn matta har lagt sig i viken. De ligger och skvalpar vid vår brygga, vid klipporna och på sandstranden som jag just anlagt för […]
Neighbor called police on a 12-year-old boy for mowing the wrong lawn! A 12-year-old entrepreneur says his lawn-mowing business is getting a lot of new clients after someone called the police on him for mowing the wrong yard. Reggie Fields runs Mr. Reggie’s Lawn Cutting Service in the Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Maple Heights. He […]
Vilken speciell glädje det är att få bygga ett utebord av den lärk min farfar Torsten Rancken planterade för 90 år sen i Merikorpi på Åminne gård och min bror Kristoffer fortsatt sköta de senaste 25 åren. Han tog hand om parker på många av gårdarna, bruken och godsen i södra Finland. Här tittar han […]
Jag deltog i en inspirerande träff med “Aktiva byar” i Röstånga i Skåne. För mig är sådana träffar livsviktiga för att jag ska kunna fortsätta tro på att det finns hopp i en ofta rätt hopplös och cynisk värld. Träffen arrangerades av nätverket Aktiva byar som är ett Leaderprojekt lett av en grupp på tre […]
Is Rachel Maddow’s reaction yesterday evening to Trump’s “tent city” camp for migrant kids in Tornillo, Texas. As of this months 67 children a day are removed from their parents when they seek asylum in The United States. The rate at which children are being removed and placed in camps increased from an average of […]
I knew it!
I follow the news and find myself (and Jonathan) watching more political TV shows and news programs than ever before. For some reason we need to follow the daily political madness in the US – and suffer while we do. We did not spend as much time in front of the TV (or computer) screen […]
We are designing our greenhouse or porch which we will build partly from old windows. A solar panel roof seems smart but until today neither of us have ever seen transparent solar panels. After searching for images on the internet I found this amazing panel! We might not be able to use these in our […]
After I had written the post to the graduating class of 2018 I thought of one more piece of advice which was missing in Mary Schmich’ essey. This thought came to me while sitting on a tram in Gothenburg, Sweden, watching my co-passangers. On the tram I once again witnessed a phenomenon I have been […]
This time a year when many young people graduate and take a brave step away from childhood to adulthood I think about what kind of “Guide to Life” I in my 50’s would give to the 18 year old Ylva. Since I have not read or heard a better Guide to Life than the one […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 