Life

" When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wrote down -happy-

They told me I didn´t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn`t understand life. "

                                         John Lennon 

There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves

 

" I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love i perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter.

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls ; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves. "


- James Kavanaugh
 ( There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves )

Tid för en saga

...Det blev kväll. Vinden brusade allt starkare i de gamla granarna. Det tyckte Heidi lät så vackert. Glittrande glad lyssnade hon till sången i trädkronorna, medan hon sprang omkring och lekte under grenarna. Farfar stod i dörren till skjulet och betraktade henne. Nu hördes en gäll vissling. Heidi slutade tvärt sin lek och farfar steg ut från skjulet. Det var getterna som kom hem....

Texten är lånad ur boken: "Heidi"  från Johanna Spyri som utkom på tyska första gången 1880.

Min tipp : Leta fram dina gamla barn böcker eller låna på biblioteket och läs dem igen. Du kommer säkert att upptäcker en del som du först nu som vuxen förstå.

Mein Tipp : Lese mal wieder ein altes Kinderbuch von Dir. Du wirst sicher einiges neues entdecken und jetzt als Erwachsener vieles besser verstehen.

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This is for me

 This is for the breaths I have yet to take,

for the memories I have yet to unfold,

for dreams I have yet to discover

This for the struggles I faced in the past,

to which I will part ways with comradeship

for they gave bruises to my knees and made me realize

that falling down does not mean it`s the end

This is for my passions and strength,

seemingly lost beneath the shadows of myself

This is for the sunshine in my laughter,

the constellations in my eyes,

the flowers beneath my skin,

and the moon in my heart

This is for me

This is for who I was

This is for who I can be

This is for who I `ve become

This is for who I want to be

not who you want me to be

                                                          (NJ.)

 
                

Att the crossroads

You have wandered through history

from the beginning to the end.

You have seen humans increase in number,

and witnessed how they exploit nature

with better and better tools 

in search of greather riches.

Today we stand at the crossroads,

at the brink of what the earth can tolerate.

The road to the future

passes through your daily life.

The easy road passes through the

valley of short-sighted abudance.

The other road through reflection

and resposibility.

It´s your choice.