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Absent - but a believer
Posted Nov 26, 2011
How come I am not a fervent contributor to H2G2, though I think and have experienced this is the best place to read and to meet intelligent, generous and humorous individuals?
How come it is easier to check Facebook a couple of times a day?
Facebook doesn't satisfy my thirst for knowledge about people, how you think and feel. What you actually mean ...
On the other hand H2G2 craves a lot of time - at least for us to whom English is a second language - and, to whom, like me, want to be as clever and clear about our real and deep down opinions about whatever we chose to engage in.
I have been an absent fan and contributor for about a year, and I cannot see a way to be more active - though I miss you all a lot.
Maybe I'm just too old 
to be an asset? Maybe because of my ity I can pick and choose...
I hope so.......
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Latest reply: Nov 26, 2011
Where did it go?
Posted Feb 19, 2011
For the last hour I've been writing a very important (to me) journal. Writing, checking, previewing etc.
And now it is gone. Da**. I'm not sure I have the energy or the gist to rewrite it. 
So. Where did it go? 
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Latest reply: Feb 19, 2011
Shit Happens! Life is Good!
Posted Feb 19, 2011
Today we said goodbye to a very good friend.
"Shit happens!" was his comment when he was diagnosed with incurable cancer.
And then he continued to live after his credo, which he always put at the end of all postcards, letters, mails, sms's and discussions: "Life is good!".
The funeral service was at our local (protestant) church although he was not a member of the church and leaned towards more optimistic and/or fatalistic beliefs: "Life is good!" - "Shit happens!"
Sig. S. rang the organist who was on holiday and asked him to go to work and play 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' in the beginning of the sermon (his choice) and "My Way" at the end, when the coffin was carried out (the wife's choice), which he did. He was also a friend and political companion (socialist).
Indeed our friend F. always did things his way, being careful not to hurt others in the process.
The speeches were very warm and painted a nuanced portrait of our friend. Sig. S. and I sang and played "Always on My Mind" (Willie Nelson) - the wife's request.
Sig. S. is always very emotional at funerals, but luckily he had practiced every day for a week with and without me, so we got through the very beautiful version he had created without breaking down. But at the end we both trembled so much that the vibrato became exaggerated 
.
Afterward, everyone was invited to the friend's and his wife's home for 
, Belgian beer and 
- our friend was from Belgium and his family had brought the goods to Denmark - wine, food, laughs and a lot of memories were consumed and exchanged - quite in our friend F.'s spirit.
He even made the sun shine during the day and the moon look like an orange pumpkin with half 
and half .
He loved traveling, company from all cultures and of all walks of life, cooking food, drinking wine and beer and talking for hours with good friends.
He will always be on my mind. And my resolution is to enjoy life even more and discard all the petty troubles.
Shit happens! - but - Life is Good!
Let us cherish our friendships. 
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Latest reply: Feb 19, 2011
Invited to Paris
Posted Feb 13, 2011
Yesterday my daughter, son-in-law and my grandchild invited me on a trip to Paris.
They got married in August - the three of them . The initial of my grandson A., 8 years, is in both their wedding rings.
The very short honeymoon with A. went to Barcelona where they between visits to museums and other cultural sites watched Mesi score hat trick.
Some of their wedding presents were vouchers for a trip to Paris, and now they invited me - the mother-in-law - on a kind of honeymoon. I'll probably do some child sitting while they have a romantic night out. 
. Playing games I'm sure.
A. lives 7 days with my daughter and 7 days with his dad. And my daughter has a hard time missing him. Also because she misses out on one of her days as she teaches at a university in the other end of the country two days a week.
A. functions very well in all aspects. The parents have been very sensible and have taken care of A.'s emotions and well-being all the way through, and they share the responsibilities admirably. Even to the point that they have celebrated x-mas together with A. and nobody else since they split up more than three years ago.
Next month, the dad has some work to do in Vietnam and A. is with my daughter for three weeks in a row. That is why she and her husband takes time off and go on a holiday to be with A. as much as possible. 
And now I'm invited as well.
I really enjoy being with S., Z. and A. So I'm looking forward to it.
I just have a twinge of bad conscience that I have to leave Sig. S. behind. I have done a lot of traveling during the recent years because of my union work. Seeing places, meeting people - and we haven't traveled very much together.
Anyway. Paris here I come! I haven't been to Paris since my early twenties. 
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Latest reply: Feb 13, 2011
Going to Australia
Posted Jul 29, 2009
I'm still dizzy and not quite sure of what I'm doing.
But today I purchased a ticket for Australia, as if I was just going to do some journalistic work in, say, Sweden. (Just a hop over the bridge from Copenhagen).
I'm co-writing a book with a pedagogue who has used 'Music as a tool' - building on 'learning by doing' - with musicians, mentally handicapped, and the resulting rock band is going on tour and to a festival in Australia. http://awakeningsfestival.com.au/.
Half seriously, half as a joke I asked the pedagogue, who is also the manager of the band, whether they needed a journalist on the tour. And he said 'sure, why not. But we cannot pay your ticket or anything'.
But I found out it wasn't too expensive, and if I can sell 2-3 articles in Denmark or Scandinavia it'll pay for the experience.
The arranging people in Australia will fix me with (cheap-ish) food and boarding - and contacts I expect.
I'll have some very good material for the book, I'll get to see (a, granted, tiny bit of) Australia 
once in my life - and who knows, maybe have a mini/micro meet with some hootooer(s) there.
Well, back to figuring out which stories I can sell to what media....
<- (My kangaroo impersonation)
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Latest reply: Jul 29, 2009
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