Posted in halden, light, magic, norway, snow on Monday, February 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On Friday, after lunch, I looked out the window, and the snow was still tumbling down, ever so lightly. But the sun was shining! A sun-snow-shower! So I put on my coat and pulled up my hood.
Everything sparkled, even the air, laced as it was with floating crystals.
And snow everywhere! Snow on the steps, snow [...]
Posted in Christmas, England, magic, york on Thursday, December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘Me babbies, me bairns!‘ The immortal opening lines of the York pantomime. I thought I’d better say a few words about it before the moment passes. We went to York especially for the pantomime, before coming to Germany. We love it. It’s been going for more than thirty years. The same panto-dame has had the [...]
Posted in America, magic, paragliding on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Flying in the Utah sunrise. There’s nothing quite like it. We’ve spent about seven hours in the air since we arrived here three days ago. Amazing.
Posted in magic, paragliding, phd, writing on Thursday, August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Above all remember this: that magic belongs as much to the heart as to the head and everything which is done, should be done from love or joy or righteous anger.
And if we honour this principle we shall discover that our magic is much greater than all the sum of all the spells that were [...]
Posted in magic, medieval, sweden on Sunday, January 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A detour on the way to our grocery shopping takes us to Blomsholm. When the sign mentions stone ships I don’t pay much attention. These are standing stones. If they found stone ships here, they must have taken them away.
The wind is cold. The stones stand as they have for fifteen hundred years.
And there it [...]
Posted in England, magic, medieval on Thursday, June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I started reading a short story by William Morris, ‘The Story of the Unknown Church’. I didn’t get very far into it, because it was time to sleep. But a few sentences on the first page reminded me of one of my favourite places in all the world. The story is told in [...]
Posted in bedrooms, magic on Friday, May 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Can you see him?
Posted in magic on Friday, May 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Posted in fire, ice, lakes, light, magic, seasons on Monday, April 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is a memory. But it’s a pretty young memory, so I thought I’d write it down. Also, ever since it happened, I’ve been wanting to write about it, and have written about it, in fragments, in emails, but here is the space to tell it properly.
Three or four weeks ago I was out on [...]
Posted in adventures, halden, magic, norway, ocean, seasons, snow, sweden, trees on Friday, April 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We hired a car over Easter and did two trips down the Swedish coast, one trip to the islands near Fredrikstad, and one trip on the ferry across the fjord into central Norway. Halden is right in the south east corner of Norway, next to Sweden. It was good to finally explore the area further [...]
