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Time and tide- and the truth about life
Because of the tilt of the moon on its axis, at the equinox the sun appears to be over the equator, and if there is a new or full moon at about the same time then all the forces contrive to create the...
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What’s now won’t be then
When I woke this morning, the sun was lower than the rowan outside my window. From my bed I could see the rays illuminating small bits of bark, every branch and single leaf from below, almost from the...
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Five ways to care
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it” William Arthur Ward These last weeks I have been wrapped in comfort and carried by love, all materialized in...
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Great expectations- the heart beat of Christmas
In april we were working like crazy to hand in a tender for a new clinic. The deadlines were looming, no breaks, little sleep and intense teamwork. In the middle of some calculations I heard myself...
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Driving in LA
You will not be able to drive in LA, it’s the craziest traffic, our friends in the Midwest told us, just as we were going to move to California. I believed them. The first week I got my CA drivers...
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What I forgot to tell you
I have my own advent calendar. No, that is not true, I have two advent calendars,if you do not count my calendar candle, that makes it three, I guess. I am the only one in the family still childish...
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The happy blues of new worries
I am exceptionally good at spotting a worry. I am not a master of letting go of my worries though. Last Sunday we were hiking the mountains around our cabin. The intense sunshine made the Monkshood...
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The moment to say no
I was enjoying the afternoon sun at a street cafe just outside the Nobel Peace center in Oslo. My husband was fetching coffee. It was peaceful, I shut my eyes and enjoyed the calm, the warmth of the...
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Shake it off and let it go
Blessed are the peacemakers, Jesus said. I remember that far too well, trying to ease conflicts, smoothing over disagreements, making amendments, giving way. Peace is not equal to absence of sound....
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How do you wait?
I was in a meeting in Oslo when I saw somebody was calling me from a landline, whoever could it be? Only doctors and hospitals still use them, and I was not waiting for any of them to call, was I? I...
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