Bakom terrariets glas
reptilerna
underligt orörliga.
En kvinna hänger tvätt
i tystnaden.
Döden är vindstilla.
I markens djup
glider min själ
tyst som en komet.
Tomas Tranströmer
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About Me
- Thekla
- Oslo, Norway
- This is a good life. Many books are yet unread, many mysteries yet unsolved, great depths of life still undiscovered. I am here to unveil as much of this peculiar existence of mine as possible. And then share some of it with you!
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Leading Lady
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J. K. Rowling
Thoughts fluttering
Leave your front door and your back door open. / Allow your thoughts to come and go. / Just don't serve them tea. - Shunryu Suzuki.
Joni Mitchell - got to love her
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Radka Toneff
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Edvard Munch
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Leonard Cohen
This guy's lyrics and voice is more and more sneaking into my life
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Keith Jarrett
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If you get a chance, you should listen to this guy playing Bach's Cello Suites. His playing is exquisite.
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Just because this image is so beautiful. As is the novel, and the movie Atonement.
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