Silence. What a way to end a decade and start a new one. Being on a silent retreat is living proof of the inner adventure being the biggest and possibly toughest one. The normal reaction is ’you’re doing what’? Or ’why are you not staying on the beach for 10 days instead of being locked […]
At first I had named it ’discipline week’ and thought of it with some harshness and squinty eyes, as if going into a bootcamp. It was the week extra I had to stay in Indonesia as my boyfriend had to go back earlier to work and take care of the dog. As I really didn’t […]
2 1/2 day without speaking . Amongst other exercises all of 60 persons were sitting together through a 3-course dinner in silence. The only sound heard was the cutlery against the porcelain and it’s never been that loud before. The food has so much more taste when you notice that you are eating and focus on […]
As I finished my first real book last year it is as if I ran out of words to write. The hours and minutes of writing every day have been spent on answering e-mails. The flow of e-mails sometimes seems endless! But it’s not just spending time writing e-mails, it’s life passing. I like to […]
Vi sitter 9 stycken på rad, i 11 rader. Vi sitter på sanden, under skydd av ett plåttak stött av betongpelare. Alla är tysta. Alla blundar. Inuti var och ens huvud pågår en kamp som bara kan utkämpas själv. Några kommer inte klara det. Tio dagar i tystnad. Meditation. Vi sover på betongsängar med träkuddar, […]