SNOWING
It is snowing right now this beautiful day which rhymes well with my good mood, the Christmas music is playing its dreams of past memories and pleasant emotions, and slight hopes of a good and festive Yuletide in the coming week for me and my family, meeting with friends to laugh and bond, to […]
THE COLLECTIVE SOUL
The more I read, the more I hear and understand, about the collective soul, the collective subconscious, the Unity, the Over Soul, the collective energy of all things. Take your pick, Emerson, Nietzsche, Jung, Watts and countless others, there seems to a common theme. Does all life stem from there, is it the energy […]
THE YULE SWEETS
Every Yule since I was born, my family had this tradition of making chocolate sweets before Christmas Eve day. Every member of the family in Iceland would gather at my parents house, and there we would make our own special confectionaries, from sugar and marzipan, with many flavors and in white, yellow, […]
OUR VOICE
I have lately been thinking about our voice what is actually means to use your voice to be unafraid to speak up, and be heard but to be heard for the right reasons too and with the word “voice” I do not speak about the vocal cords and the vibrations of tone and pitch, […]
WAITING FOR THE WINTER SOLSTICE
The darkness here in Iceland is all around no glimpse of sunshine is on the ground mornings are black, and afternoons too we avoid the Trolls outside, as would you we wait and wait for that sacred of days when the gods return the sunlight’s rays to return to us again, and bring a […]
I MISS – I AM THANKFUL
I miss the Christmas times gone by I miss the times of youth and joy I miss my loved ones who have passed I miss preparing Yule without them I miss I am thankful for my family around me I am thankful for my friendships that continue I am thankful for the days that […]
WE ARE ALONE
We are alone in our thoughts we are alone in our feelings we are alone in our presumptions we are alone in our hopes we are alone in our expectations we are alone in our sorrows we are alone in our destitution we are alone all the time yet we are never alone. […]