Krokus

Lately I have not written anything at all.

I have taken som pictures with the camera in hand.


The spring has sprung once again.

It has come later than usual. Apparently the Gulf stream is weakening.

This year the ice by the north pole has melted even more.

It is sunny outside and for gardeners it is busy time to tend the garden.

No time for worrying. A is in trial for last years horrendous attack. M will get his verdict for the crime committed next week. Will KJ and DT meet and greet for real? What the heck is the Swedish Academy up to?

The bad plastic has gotten more recognition around, its everywhere in shampoo microplastic beads, in the water, in the fish, in the system, many small pieces in large piles, in the pacific trash vortex.

Music: Queen - Bicycle Race

Its time to become more aware even.

Think about what choices you make
to make that ecological footprint better

how you are living,  if the house is warmed up with solarpanel, fossil free clean energy for the sake of good
where do you spend money, how are your savings longterm, and what do you support
how do you travel - its costly for the environment if you fly, drive car, better to walk or bicycle
what do you eat - friendly to the environment is vegetarian/vegan
and what desire do you have to shop for? Urge? Do you need five pair of trousers? Why do you need ten different t-shirts?
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5 B sku man tänka på enligt klimatforskare hördes på Karlavagnen.
Bostad, hur bor du,
Börsen, vart placerar du pengar, besparningar
Bilen, resor som görs, går det att cykla eller gå?
Biffen, äter du kött ännu? Nej jag är vegetarian nu.
Begäret, eller så butiken vad handlar du

No one is in Control said Zygmunt

In the news

 recently read about the election of Austria new leadership. I read the day before that the bad man

won so then I felt surprised and glad that it was not so the day after. So close between the rightwing

Norbert Hofer and an environmentalist Alexander Van Der Bellen. Alas, nature won over the strong

opinions from an angry man(and also almost 50% of the voters)

The article about the election in Austria tells me that two other European countries has a extrem

right leadership already, which is something to worry about. If you didn't care before I mean,

connected to this is the man whom visited Stockholm ten days ago, a man that has a lot to say about

the human society For me other news is Zygmunt Bauman, 91years old, is still alive,

a short interview is available on SVT (Swedish television), I so could have been listening to him IRL

if I wasn't jetlagged from the Berlin trip and happy to be home in the garden that sunday. I could go

on and on about how beautiful that city was and also filled with heavy memorabilia from the war, but

also green and bohemia that like vegan and bio-markets, its more to choose from that in Stockholm,

ecological and arts, picnic in the park. I've

seen the remains of the Wall that has so many songs written about it from like the Who, Bowie, Ebba

Grön to name a few. I left Berlin with memos from contemporary art and In the Hauptbahnhof museo

there was a video room where Cate Blanchett played 13 different characters that were synched in

moments, called Manifesto, I visited with my mates the site, Teufelsberg were some scenes had

been recorded with a view over Berlin. It was amazing abandoned but still entrance fee and graffiti

all over the place... [insert pictures here/link to album]

The old man that is Zygmunt tells about how evil has spread into society more broad then before,

and how technology has changed our society. His english speaking voice reminds me of

that of Count Dracula in Bram Stokers Dracula(1991), the way Gary Oldman talks.

To look at the swedish society shows really how things

are with a computerized wealthy place how the nature of sociability has become less and

more people are more stressed out and sure we are more connected online with cellphones

but at the same time more unavailable because of it.

He talked about power and politics. Power means make things done. The politics are there for to

decide what to be done. No one is in control. Things happen randomly.

What will the future be? There is always hope. Hope, yeah.

I like that the green party, the environmentalist won in Austria. There is still hope of a better future. 


Folklore: yesterday I read that Loki(Loke/Lodur) was the one that named Saturday/Lördag in

Swedish/northern society before the Christianity decided to change it. They kept the holy beings of

Sun(Sol), Moon(Måne), Tyr, Oden, Tor and Feja as naming the weekdays.

So it was OK to have the warrior God Tyr, God of wisdom and death Odin, God of Thunder and

Freja - the godess of love for friday but no to Loki, the giant creative/destructive (also most human

force) because the day in the roman calendar was Saturnus, so close to satan.

The church had a meeting the year 1153 in Nidaros and decided to change what for the priesthood

sounded like a satanic Lodursday to Laugardagen (a washing up/holy water day) for it to sound

alike. So what was taught in school was a lie. The Seventh day is no longer bathing day

it is Loki day.

I wonder how much more little lies there are written in books. I dare not think about it. 



No one is in control... 

but the people voted Ukraine to win ESC2016. 

"I could not spend my youth there

Because you took away my land

I couldn't have my homeland" 

translation of the difficult crimean tartar refrain

words the story of the singers aunt/ or grandma? 

and it is not political? It resonated with many anyhow.

The one with the remote control got the power. Sad but true. 

I'm trying to not be

aware

This is not working for me. I heard from my colleague to-day about how much rubbish that is thrown into the  Östersjön. That small unique part of lake that is between Sweden and Finland, baltikum, Denmark, Germany and Poland, that lake has had waste sunken on purpose into it since the year 1800 something. And still to this day the ferries, boats that goes on daily basis on their route between the countries next to this big in lake throws stuff overboard I heard from this diving man. And its so awful. I feel bad for the fish. I feel bad for mother nature. I feel sorry for the next generation that will have such toxic water that it is life treathening danger to bathe, take a swim and forget about drinking the water in the Future to come. It is too late now. What can we do other than wait for doomsday on this half of the millennium? 

- Party? 

- I wish I could stop thinking about that toxic waste, that forgotten torpedo on the floor of the ocean, the sunken ship with dangerous cargo, all those boats that are left to rot also in the deep. 

- Can´t we start the process of making amends? 

- It will only take 15000 men some hundred thousand years to clean up that mess on the bottom. 

- Oh. Thats alot of jobs then...

- Here under the bridge, do you know what to find there?

- No
- Bicycles. People throw their old bicycles over the bridge in the nighttime just to get rid of it and then report it stolen to the police and get the money.
- No really?
nedskräpningen av östersjön må tas på allvar. På hemsidan Hållbara hav finns mera info.

the Future houses

Arcitecht Mick Pearce. What I liked about his talk was that he told about how he tried to learn how to build a house with the nature involved in the building itself, environment thinking. This is good house building for the future.

http://urplay.se/Produkter/178165-UR-Samtiden-Harma-naturen-Bio-inspirerad-arkitektur

It reminds me of Alvar Aalto, a Finnish arcitect that also used a closeness to nature within his building, but the difference here is that Mick Pearce do work together with the scientists knowledge of as the first example in the video the Termites housewarming technique, their lung as he says, he needed the scientists for him to learn the functionality and then he makes it into a building in humansize with his arcitect skilled design of course. The waterfall building in China is an interesting project mentioned in the same video piece. Its fascinating to learn about how the trees also get integrated into a parkingspot.

More collaboration of science and arcitect might make a better future for sustainable houses.

Weekly update

I thought I go out to get entertained by some culture last week.
STOFF arrangemang in Stockholm. John Malkovich has been to Sthlm Sweden and performed a horror story with teathre. - I did not go I'm sorry, but I felt it to be a 'too evil to my stomach' show. (Real reason: it was sold out)
Then I was supposed to demonstrate against the chemicals, the GMO company, the Manolo- monolo- Mo ma mo.. some bad guy with power that should not be allowed to throw pesticides on our crops/ vegetables/ green green grass. - I did not go to demonstrate becoz I forgot about it.. (thought it was today, when it was yesterday).

What I did do last week out of the ordinary: I lost 1,7kg with the WeightWatcher helping program. I made a real good recipe from their cookbook, a Chickenstew with Mango.
And for dessert I got to adjust a chocolate cake recipe and made my own homecooked cherry-marmalade to the cake filling. Its yummie.
   After have read some upsetting news I went for a walk , got to the lake, sat down on the rock nearest to the water and wrote down my anger towards the ignorant powerful people and about everything that does not work, threw the note into the water and felt so much better. (No, not really I saved my notes so that I may share them after I've done some more research..)