2020 in review
THANK
YOU ALL FOR 2020. Here we are again a new year is around the corner and
we all have hopes and dreams we want to fulfil. Yes, we did this last
year too, hopefully, and some things we did accomplish and some we did
not, so even yours truly. The trick seem to be to focus on progress and
to have goals within different areas of life. Then to go through your
year in review - to make you see your own progress and move forward the
coming year - 2021.
Happy ending of 2020 - to all of you.
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
JANUARY
FROM DUVEMÅLA TO MACEDONIA
Thank you Martin, Anders, Lars and Norrköping’s Symphony Orchestra for a lovely week and two special concerts presented in 5 languages. Swedish, English, Somali, Arabic and Tigrinya.
So good to see all of you again and try
to understand a new language, well, just understood two of them, sadly
enough. The audience understood it all though, which was made clear, and
we where given many different kind of music from near and far - from
Duvemåla to Macedonia.
Grateful to be a small part of this - thank you, warmly.
CONDUCTOR Christoffer Nobin
SOLOIST Blagoj Lamnjov clarinet
NORRKÖPING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Shostakovich & Tchaikovsky
Delighted to be a part of such a lovely week where one of Shostakovich' most orginal pieces along side with Tchaikovsky's most beloved piano concertos where on the program.
Thank you Glenn, Anders, Angelina and Gävle Symphony Orchestra for this - thank you, warmly.
Conductor Jessica Cottis
Piano Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev
Sjostakovitj Hamlet suite
Tjajkovskij Piano Concerto nr 1
Gävle Symphony Orchestra
FEBRUARY
VALENTINES DAY SAARIAHO & TCHAIKOVSKY
Grateful to be a part of such an evening in Gävle - thank you.
A Taiwanese-American conductor living in Chicago, a mezzo soprano from
London, a violinist from Manchester, an oboist flown in from Berlin, a
clarinet player directly from Stockholm on concert day, and yes, surely
forgotten countries which cities were represented this Valentines days
eve in Gävle.
Thank you Glenn, Anders, Magdalena and Gävle Symphony Orchestra for a lovely week - it warmed the heart dearly - thank you.
Conductor Mei Ann Chen
Mezzo soprano Allison Cook
GRÉTRY Zémire et Azor, Overture
SAARIAHO Emilie suite
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony nr 4
MARCH
FAITH & ASSURANCE Now, faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. "How can one belief in something you can not see and how can that lead
to assurance?" one wonders. "Well," the answer seems to come by itself.
"Just as we needed to belief that we one day could walk when we where a
child we need to belief that we can find answers to our questions, yes, a
belief that we can figure things out."
"So, how can one belief or even know that something is true?" "Well, by
sincerely asking with real intent to know," the answer came by itself
again, because answers are available all the time, always. The most
important thing is to take one question at a time, to know which
question one get the answer to.
And there is always something new
to learn, in all stages in life for every girl and boy, woman and man,
yes, every sister and brother.
The question’s can even be mundane and practical such as:
"How can one get and keep a good health? How can one live a good life
and how can one serve successfully within the fields of one´s own
passion and interest?"
The answers come as from nowhere and the
good answers leads us forward in our decisions in life. "Yes, we all
surely make mistakes sometimes. Then it is so incredible liberating for
all of us that we can try again and keep learning all through life."
Now, faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what
we do not see - because we can seek the truth in all things.
APRIL
World Book Day & Publishing
Give a book away to friend
so dear or to
yourself
now
at home
so near.
World Book Day
is a day instituted by Unesco in 1995 to acknowledge the book and copywrite. World Book Day is the 23 april every year.
MAY
HAVE YOU EVER HAD A DREAM?
In times of change the learned find
them self beautifully equipped for a world that do not longer exit -
while the learners inherit the earth.
Changes, we all pass
through in life, either we like it or not, and sometimes changes come to
us all collectively - like today. If we all could learn to know that we
are here to grow - we continually enhance, regardless of age, gender or
colour.
Someone said; "Without vision, people perish." Which means that we have to have a dream - a direction forward, always.
You know, like the Kings do, they pass on the crown immedtially after
their death to the next generation, so that continuum never ends - and
are we not all Kings and Queens, in regard to an eternal perspective.
Like Chuck Mangione wrote;
"Without dreams of hope and pride, a man will die
Though his flesh still moves, his heart sleeps in the grave
Without land, man never dreams cause he's not free
All men need a place to live with dignity.
Take the crumbs from starving soldiers, they won't die
Lord said not by bread alone does man survive
Take the food from hungry children, they won't cry
Food alone won't ease the hunger in their eyes.
Every child belongs to mankind's family
Children are the fruit of all humanity
Let them feel the love of all the human race
Touch them with the warmth, the strength of that embrace.
Give me love and understanding, I will thrive
As my children grow, my dreams come alive
Those who hear the cries of children, God will bless
I will always hear the Children of Sánchez."
Yes, take the crumbs from starving soldiers, they will not die. Take
the food from hungry children, they will not cry. But take the dreams
from little children (in all ages) and we all will die.
Have you ever had a dream - please do so now.
JUNE
TRONS I KOLSÄTT Close to all of us is family and it is
so fun to be able to publish another family book, which is happening
right now, the book Trons i Kolsätt - Pehr Jonson & Ella
Ambriksdotters ättlingar written by Lena Eklöf and Tore
Svedlund. Who both originate from different line of decendents of the
homestead Trons in Kolsätt, Härjedalen.
TRONS I KOLSÄTT - Pehr Jonsson & Ella Embriksdotters ättlingar
av Lena Eklöf och Tore Svedlund ISBN 978-91-7819-735-4
JULY
TURN THE OTHER CHEEK To turn the other cheek is not always easy;
do believe that it helps though, because whom of us has not his or her
own faults. Wish to share a true story about turning the other cheek,
literally, and the power of the spoken word in truth.
A young man
had an intellectually challenged sister and in school some of the boys
was teasing him about that. They called her names and made fun of her in
front of him, day-by-day and week-by-week. Something this young man could ignore, because he knew better than that.
To this story one must say that this young man was a big young man, he
was tall and a well-trained swimmer, yes, like real farm door with his
length and his broad shoulders.
One day in school his schoolmates
went too far and he had had it, so he said; "I want you to stop teasing
me and speaking badly about my sister." The other boys looked at him as
if they have just got what they wanted. "Come on," they said waving
their fists in front of him. "No," the young swimmer answered. "I do not
want to fight, I want you to stop teasing me and speaking badly about
my sister." Then came the punch, a fist stroke that hit the jaw of the
well-trained swimmer. Then, everything became quiet.
After a
while a voice was heard, just as calm as the first time, this time with a
little blood running down his jaw. "I do not want to fight, I want you
to stop teasing me and speaking badly about my sister."
The boys
looked up on the now bleeding big swimmer and the boy who had hit him
was clearly moved. He knew his guilt, felt it and it was clearly shown.
The boys turned around, walked away and never teased him again.
To turn the other cheek is not always easy; do believe that it helps
though. Hope that none of us have to end up in a situation this young
swimmer did - turning the other cheek helped him though, yes, actually
everyone in that situation and that everyone was talking about this
event long after it had happened - yes, even today, actually.
AUGUST
GOLD - WHAT IS GOLD TO YOU?
As a young person the answer may be one thing. When we are all grown up
we might answer something else and when we grow older we might, again,
answer something new. Somethings have stayed the same, in my case, but
my values have changed, bit by bit, hopefully. Somebody has said; "I
will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden
wedge of Ophir." So - what is gold to you?