Tag Archives: Varia

‘One day we shall die. But all the other days we shall be alive.’  [embedded content] Per Olov Enquist, one of Sweden’s most acclaimed authors and intellectuals has died. RIP.

Wann ist die Pandemie vorbei?  [embedded content]

Schweden fährt in der Corona-Krise seinen eigenen Kurs  [embedded content]

Pandemic depression antidote (VII)  [embedded content] War veteran Tom Moore has won the hearts of people by raising more than £30 million for the NHS by walking laps of his garden. Thanks, Captain Tom!

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Pandemic depression antidote (VI) [embedded content] Spending most of my time nowadays — in the shadow of the pandemic — at my summer residence on my island in the Karlskrona archipelago, yours truly has plenty of time watching his favourite movies. And Mia Wasikowska is absolutely ripping in this rendering of Charlotte Brontë’s classic Jane Eyre.

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Loving you is sweeter than ever (personal) [embedded content] Come sempre, questo è per te, Jeanette. Though I speak with the tongues of angels, If I have not love … My words would resound with but a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy ​… And understand all mysteries … and all knowledge … And though I have all faith So that I could remove mountains, If I have not love … I am nothing.

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Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī  [embedded content]  O day, arise! The atoms are dancing. Thanks to Him the universe is dancing. The souls are dancing, overcome with ecstasy. I’ll whisper in your ear where their dance is taking them. All the atoms in the air and in the desert know well, they seem insane. Every single atom, happy or miserable, Becomes enamoured of the sun, of which nothing can be said. Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273)