Listen / Lurta

Elizabeth Gilbert's lecture about creativity is always worth a relistening. So I'm reposting it :)
Hevur tú hoyrt Elizabeth Gilbert? Hon er so góð, at man burdi lurta eftir henni einaferð um mánaðin :)

Cornerview: contrasts

light and dark
relaxed and busy
happy and sad
beautiful and ugly
funny and boring

In my dreams
I'm only one of each pair
but in reality
I'm am all
and more


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Goethe inspiration II

Kundi gott hugsa mær at smakkað kakurnar og lisið bøkurnar.
Mínar kakur eru flatar og bøkurnar í dag hava bleytan bíligan rygg.
Kanska mistu vit okkurt í allari framgongdini.

I woulnd't mind tasting those cakes or reading those books.
My cakes are flat and today's books are cheap paperbacks.
Maybe we lost something on the road called progress.

Goethe inspiration

Eg var í barnaheiminum hjá Goethe, tá vit vóru í Frankfurt. Eg veit ikki, hvat vaktirnar hildu um hesa konuna, sum gekk runt og tók nærmyndir av tapeti. Eg hevði næstan hug at siga, umskylda, men eg vaks upp í einum tapethandli, men tonkti gott er.
Goethe var ein undangongumaður innan litteori, og eg haldi litáhugin sæst aftur í tapetunum í húsinum. Ella kanska varð áhugin fyri litum vaktur av at vaksa upp í einum slíkum umhvørvi. Hetta turkis rúmið við blómum og fuglum á tapetinum er bara eitt av mongum.

I visited Goethe Haus when we were in Frankfurt earlier this month. I wonder what the guards thought about this strange woman taking close shots of the wallpapers. I almost felt like explaining to them that I was raised in a wallpapershop, but thought: never mind.
Goethe invented a colour theory that has inspired later colour theories. And I think his interest of colours is reflected in the wallpaper - or maybe his interest came from growing up in such an environment.
This turquois room with flowers and birds on the wall paper was just one of many.

Vit binda frið / Knitting recovery

Kári bindur, hann bindur frið, og hann bindur eitt langt turriklæði til mammu sína. Eitt rættiliga langt, fingrabundið turriklæði. Stuttligt at síggja, hvussu hann slappar av við vaksandi plagginum millum fingrarnar.

Eg bindi eisini frið, men bindi ikki nakað annað. Tað havi eg ikki styrki til í løtuni. Men eg orki at lurta, og í dag havi eg lurta eftir áhugaverdum bindipráti, sum júst snúði seg um grøðandi styrkina í binding og týdningin av, at børn læra at gleða seg um at binda heldur enn at binda rætt.

Samrøðan er frá CraftSanity og kann hoyrast her.

In Faroese we have the expression "to knit peace" which means to do nothing, to not-be-busy.
A good thing to do when you are recovering from a bad flu.

Kári is both knitting peace and knitting his mom a long scarf. A very long, fingerknitted scarf. So fun to see how he relaxes while crafting with his fingers.

I'm not knitting anything but peace right now. But I do have the strength to listen to interesting podcasts. And today I listen to this conversation about the healing power of knitting and about how to give children the love for knitting by not critizing them.

The podcast was on CraftSanity.

Cornerview: water

For an islander like me, water equals sea.

A couple of months ago I swam in it. Every day for a couple of weeks I took a quick dip in the freezing water.
But no longer. I started worrying about my health and my swimsuit appearance and stopped going down there.

A few years ago I travelled by sea to work almost every day. Living on one island and working as a teacher on another.
But no longer. A subsea tunnel made the ferry redundant, and I moved on.

So right now, as the autumn waves are rising high against the cliffs, I watch them from the safety of our cosy livingroom. Enjoying the sea from a distance.
But not a long distance. In the Faroes the sea is always right there infront of you.

Life is like the sea sometimes.

There are days you want to retreat from it.
Watch from a distance.
But it is always right here.

And there are days you have to.
Step back or move on.
But it still here, right in front of you.

Comment:
Water is the theme at Cornerview this week.
The picture is from a fishing trip this summer.
And the text is inspired by our seasonal family flu. First, all the boys were sick, then I, then they took another round, and now I'm back in bed. Rough seas, I guess.

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dreymur / dream (cornerview)

Dagsins myndir passa als ikki til dagin í dag. Tað regnar, eg eri sjúk, og lagið er í botn.
Men myndirnar passa til dreymin. Dagsins tema á Cornerview er "dreymur mín", og hesar myndirnar avspegla mín ikki orðaða dreym.

Today's pictures do not fit this day in my life. I'm down with a flu and hit by the blues, and it's raining outside.
But the pictures fit my dream. Todays theme at Cornerview is "my dream", and these pictures represent my unspoken dream.

(myndirnar eru tó mínar og míni ting :), fyrst eitt sjálvgjørt postkort eg fekk frá bloggara í Kanada, síðani ommuteppi, sum skjótt er klárt at seyma saman, og síðst tráður frá bloggara í Danmark)

(the pictures and the stuff in them are mine however :) first a postcard from a blogger in Canada, then the nearly-finished grannyblanket, and last threads from a blogger in Denmark)

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Skuggin / The shadow

Ein garður í Frankfurt, fullur av smáum kassum við einum steini omaná og innskrift framman. Vit taldu ikki hvussu nógvir teir vóru, tað bar ikki til.

A gardenwall in Frankfurt full of small boxes with a stone on top and an inscription in front. We didn't count how many boxes there were. It was impossible.

Setur ynski um at náa alt og fáa alt í perspektiv, ger tað ikki? Einki er ein sjálvfylgja, heldur ikki lívið.

Puts my longing to do everything and get everything into perspective, doesn't it? We shouldn't take anything for granted. Not even life itself.

I want it all

What do you want to be when you grow up? I never knew what to answer when asked this question. I did not know what opportunities life would give, and today I still don't know what I want to be.
I want it all. I have just returned from a lovely week at the Frankfurt Bookfair. Loved it. The books, the people, the city.
I love being back home in my new apron handmade by the extremely talented Valerie from France. It is the coolest apron I've ever seen, seriously! Love the bright colours and the stylish mix of patterns. Love it. And I love the baking connected to wearing an apron. I love being the mamma in the house with everything that it contains.
And I love going to work. Love being active and having so many opportunities to be creative and connect with other people.
Love it all. That is the problem. Well, loving the apron is not a problem. But having time to use it, having time to do my job as well as I want to, and having time to be the wife, mom and friend I want to.

Little did I know
When they asked me
What do you want to be
Little did I know
That I would choose
The career of a juggler

sea monster

see you later
rainy allegator