(Or who do you want to be at the age of 96?) Restarting your life (or reinventing it), sounds like an American “pull yourself together” cliché, where the only thing needed to get a better life is to get out of bed in the morning. (And preferably make your bed – like a famous general …
Reinventing your life – or just make your bed, you lazy shit Read More »
A good friend of mine once said while walking in the mountains of Gran Canaria. “Knut, we have twenty good years left. Use them wisely » I was about 49 years old at the time and did not feel old at all. In fact, I was quite agile and answered her quickly: “You must give …
Slow down you crazy child You’re so ambitious for a juvenile But then if you’re so smart tell me, Why are you still so afraid? – Billy Joel (The lyrics of the song Vienna from the album The Stranger, 1977) After some sad weeks with the loss of good people, the tragedy …
You can get what you want – Or you can just get old Read More »
a friend you wished you had met earlier. “Only in the trenches during the artillery fire had I come so close to other people. Today’s blog is very personal. It will be about a man who is no longer with us, but who left solid imprints before he died. I do not …
I sometimes try to predict the future. Look ahead a bit. What happens today and what happened in the weeks before, will affect us tomorrow and in the months to come. Anyways that’s my belief. Reading and learning about history is always fascinating because the phrase “history repeats itself” has a great deal of truth …
What did the pandemic do to us? And what did vi learn from it? Read More »
… On a beach outside the town of Mytilíni, Lesvos at 0030 February 22, 2016. I stand with my binoculars and look at a low, dark line on the horizon. A few seconds later it is confirmed: It is a RIB. A black rubber boat. It is always anxious to see how low in the …
The young adults I am old enough to occasionally read the obituaries in Adresseavisen, (I admit it). An overview, mostly to see if there is anyone I know by name who is dead. Fortunately, I rarely see anyone from my own generation who has died. But then there are the others: this time it was …
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