Let's hope for getting better each year

Happy new Year!

Steve Job's Advice

(Me, Linda, have collected what I think is the essence from Jobs famously Stanford speech 2005)

Connect the dots (på svenska se sammanhang)
You can only connect the dots
                  looking backwards
Start over Love what you do
the only way to do great work is
love what you do
So keep looking - Don´t settle
Tell yourself is this what I would like to do
for the rest of my days?
Am I happy with now?
Can I change it?
What is better than this?
If this is it. This is the last day.
Stay hungry
     Stay focused
Would you like to do what you do today?
Do what you love to do
Don't compromise.
Do what you love to do.
Follow your heart and intuition,
they somehow know what you want to do.
 -Get over it and start all over again.

A fresh start.

- Correct translations pictionary app? does it exist already?

for example  _the same picture for illustrate the meaning of the word. (Substantiv)

tuoli, chair, stol, le chair  maybe make own drawings to the word

match, kiss, suudella, puss  for education purposes eh?

table, bord, le table, pöytä  student get to spell correctly

kissa, cat, le chat, die katze, katt  maybe a voice attached to the word also
dog, chien, hund, das hund, koira 
skola, die schule, koulu, school
gå till skolan, mennä kouluun, go to school, die schule zugehen, avants le schole, avanti il scuola,
studera, studieren, study, opiin, studiare
The thing with languages is that they are all from different beginnings, but at the ultimate beginning maybe there was only one language?
Since Babels tower according to the Bible we have different languages but somehow they work together/ make sense/ have some similarities and through the years, centuries, millennias the languages has merged into eachother, the travellers have brought words and with new discoveries new words are made up. Today with the interweb internet thing language seem to get globally connected in a very fast pace compared to the old days, like only 30 years/50 years ago before the personal computer was invented, before the internet was made public, before the computer age.
I don't think the youth today know how to appreciate this marvellous world that we are living in. I am so lucky to have grown up before the computer age. I was outdoors playing with my best friends and I think back at those days as the happy time in my life. You are young only one time. If I get kids someday I will love them unconditionally and let them be kids for as long as possible. I will not give them technology before they are old enough. I will let them live in the real world where the grass is green in the spring, snow is white in wintertime, trees all colours in the autumn and in the summer the children may swim in the blue ocean.
   And that's all I got for you now. I have to get my essae written today. And hold the line open for phonecalls about work.

 Sketch 1 and 2 Idea

 Illustration 3 and 4 of idea

In thrapy 3 loneliness

- I feel so lonely, it's like noone cares about me.
- How do you mean?
- Everyone got someone to rely on but me. My friends got kids and familys of their own, I'm just a single     woman with not much friends.
- But you got friends and still feel alone?
- Yes, its that point when I sit alone in my room in the evening and I feel that something is missing. I so would want to have a kid to care for.
- In  that moment of loneliness what do you do? What are you thinking about?
- I get sad and put on some music, then I hear in the song someone else have this same feeling as I have. So I figure out that I am not so alone after all. Its a human feeling.
- Yes thats right. Its a human feeling to like to be a part of the society and community. Of course you look to the friend with a child when you don't have one. She can be secretly looking at you too and miss the time when she was so free to do anything because you ought to know that with children comes obligations.
- I would like that to have the child to care for, to have the obligation towards another small being, a part of me it should be. Or any other child in the world. Just someone to care for, perhaps an animal. I just don't understand the people that choose not to have kids because kids are the joy of life.
- Mhm, so having a kid would help you from loneliness. What if you cant have children? And if you dont meet "the right one"?
- Thats when I get sad. What if I will never be able to have what I wish to have.
- What if anything is possible?
- How?
- All you have to have is the Will and the Word. Go on make a wish and it will come true.

Yester years shrooms

2009 was a good year to pick some golden mushrooms from the forest. Kantarell och Trattkantarell/ Höstkantarell You pick the mushrooms thats familiar so you know for sure its edible. I haven't had the time to go yet this season, but I know where they are, or where they should be. Part of looking for goodies in the forest is just to enjoy being back to nature.

Today, let it be a good day

Great day for america! Eh, Irony. I see in the news the political game that is going on. The government of US is very special. The president has not the power but the house of parliament does? The US had a shutdown in 1995 too, during Bill Clinton rule. Shutdown, I believe would never occur in Sweden. We have a different system. The budget has gone through some debate of course but no disagreement in the Riksdagen would get the Swedish government to shut down.
   Of course we have high tax that every citizen dutifully pays in to the government through the "moms" that is on every item we buy. It´s a good thing to have tax because the money goes to hospital, social services, school, police, government. And then theres the one krona that goes to the king of Sweden aswell, he tends to the history of the old country.
   It seems that most of the countries in the world has money debts, taking loans to pay for this and that. And luckily the most money are just numbers on a datascreen. If the money was printed out there would soon be shortage of cotton or trees or whatever money are made of. The solution for future society seem to be fleemarkets, garagesales, trading things person to person, visit the farm to buy milk and cheese by trading a shirt or knitted hat. (In China there is a rule to not build below 37 stories high buildings becoz of the increasing population. I wonder how they would get to the farm on daily basis, countryside or forest when its so many people crammed into one spot?)

   I'm wondering where the grass is greener?

Ten years ago (September 10. 2003)

Ten years ago (September 10. 2003)
I was this day on a square in Stockholm called Medborgarplatsen. The politicians Socialdemokraterna had the spotlight, took the stage did a woman called Anna Lindh, she talked for a while to introduce the now former statsminister Göran Persson. They talked about voting Yes for the Euro (money).
I don't remember much of what was said. I only went there because my boyfriend wanted to see and he is totally Yes Euro. "Solidaritet" is often mentioned by that party Socialdemokraterna, I think it means You have to be a good neighbour; stand by someone in hard times; show love to the poor(not quite, to anybody?). Let's say I didn't understand much of what was said, although I was impressed by Anna Lindh, that a woman (with glasses like me) could be talking important matters next to the primeminister of Sweden Göran Persson(whom my father was a great fan of). I remember Anna Lindh, her smile and handshake.

The next day on the train on my way to school, I got a sms saying the news that Anna Lindh is dead. I was stunned, in chock that day. When I got to class we got the message that class would not be cancelled but at 12 o'clock we could go to the aula to watch the primeminister speech on TV. Teareyed Göran Persson.

Today
The news have shown remembering programs all weekend of Anna Lindh, who was stabbed to death September 11, 2003. She has done alot of good for women in the land that doesn´t exist(Kurdistan, somewhere within the drawn lines of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria). She could have done alot of more if she had lived on, but now she only lives on in the memories we keep.
(Sweden voted No to Euro(money). Swedish krona seem to be doing alright today. Ten years later and no female Primeminister of Sweden yet).