Tag Archives: Varia

Oíche Chiúin, Stille Nacht, Silent Night .[embedded content]

.[embedded content] Films can touch us in many different ways. Many are little more than pure time-fillers and escapism. But there are also a few — very few — films that truly mean something. The ones that deeply penetrate our souls and shake us to our core. Kjell-Åke Andersson’s adaptation of Göran Tunström’s masterpiece The Christmas Oratorio — with divinely gifted music by Stefan Nilsson — is one such film. One of the saddest and almost unbearably moving films I know. But...

I alla moderna människors liv behövs det tid för andhämtning och reflektion. Och ibland — när alla möjliga och omöjliga måsten och krav från omgivningen bara blir för många och högljudda — kan det vara skönt att dra sig undan lite grand och slå av på takten för en stund. Alla har vi väl olika sätt att göra det på. Själv brukar jag gå in på SVT Play och titta på Gubben i stugan — Nina Hedenius underbara dokumentärfilm om den pensionerade skogsarbetaren Ragnars liv i Dalarnas...

Die hinkende Logik hinter der Schuldenbremse .[embedded content]

Time is on my side .[embedded content]

Visiting Stockholm for a few podcast appearances with Starta Pressarna yours truly managed to bring wife and three of our children, who live in the royal capital, to visit Waldemarsudde. Until March, there’s a fascinating solo exhibition featuring Gunnel Wåhlstrand, whose ink-wash artworks, with incredible photorealistic precision, are breath-taking. Well worth a visit.

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What pulls me through in this world of troubles .[embedded content]

Best match point ever .[embedded content]

Over the rainbow (personal) Spending a lovely weekend on our island in the Karlskrona​ archipelago my loved one took this beautiful picture of an autumn rainbow. Pure magic!