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german jonas durchs and swedish johan adolf spaak naivepaintingstyle swedishchurch gällingekyrka gällinge woodenchurches folkpainting folkart johnaandthewhale biblicalpaintings jonasdurchs johanadolfspaak a post shared by leif södergren leifsodergren on aug 17 2019 at 1 47am pdt posted by viktor at saturday august 17 2019 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday may 30 2019 the war on women fundamentalists and the ultra conservative republican party in america are today launching an assault on women s reproductive rights listen to a woman describe the horror of an illegal 1930 s back alley abortion this text is taken from donovan o malley s women who love other stories t he last story joan and jean on pago pago deals with a fictitious meeting of the classic film actors joan crawford and jean harlow in it crawford describes to harlow what abortion was like when it was illegal in the usa and the ensuing horror and possible aftermath of a back alley abortion ever seen an illegal abortionist s waiting room one thing they don t have at a back alley abortionist s is magazines one thing they do have is cockroaches you re waitin there in this back alley butcher s waitin room and a door opens and this young girl she can t be no more than fourteen this young girl comes out holdin her belly and there s a slush of mascara and tears all over her empty little face and there s blood on her skirt and the skirt s back to front but she don t care about nothin as she staggers out she leaves a trail of tiny specks of blood that follow her out the door like the bread crumbs that hansel and gretel in that fairy tale scattered to find their way back but there ain t no way back for this bloody child who will die in the dark alley just outside this child ain t no gretel and this ain t no fairy tale i lay there with my dress up to my chin he looked down at me grinned for a moment i was glad it wasn t longer he went to wash that child s blood from his hands and i thanked god for little favors he was at least washing his hands before he touched me i looked around and i couldn t see the forest for the forceps and the prongs and the knives and the little pincers and the big pincers and the scissors and the tiny tiny so very tiny hooked something or others that lay about that butcher s shop this illegal back alley abortionist this spurious doctor this butcher gives you a slug of gin from a dirty glass pours a little more drinks it himself then soaks his bloody hanky in it and rubs it on his long hooked wire this man this cruel but necessary criminal was our only resort when a woman was poor and abortion was against the law and later my belly got bigger and bigger when it shoulda got smaller and smaller bigger and bigger stead of smaller and smaller i thought it was a inflammation or somethin a lot of lonely bleedin was on my agenda then one fine morning a few months later i wake up in this cheap hotel on a real bloody bed see with this little thing beside me i ain t quite awake so i don t know what the hell it is but it moves and it looks at me with big cloudy eyes and do you know what i say i say what the hell is this it is attached to an umbilical cord thingy that trails right up into my i lifted the bedclothes to get a better look i was foolishly curious in those days the little thing it was unformed made tiny noises tiny jerky moans i pulled it next to me and it snuffled and made the tiny noises again i put what might have been should have been its mouth on my nipple but it didn t suck its mouth wasn t didn t seem to be developed enough to suck i hugged it for awhile till it stopped breathing and it turned blue and it felt cold then i cut it free with my manicure scissors and i put it in a paper bag and i threw it away that s what millions of women did when abortion was illegal i was lucky thousands died donovan o malley posted by viktor at thursday may 30 2019 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday october 31 2018 food folk människor mat much of human activity is centered around food we think of food whether we re hungry or not we spend a great deal of time buying it we take hours preparing it well some do we talk about it we read about it in cook books we watch television when chefs talk about it sometimes to excess when we socialize it is often centered around the communal intake of it we give it as gifts food we can t escape it some people become keenly interested in preparing food for themselves and others many have become what we call good cooks usually a degree of creativity is involved together with a keen interest to entertain and a need to take care of others to be a good host it is such people that one remembers and that is how i got started on food folk remembering for example that excellent couple beatrice and clayburn la force on their ranch in alpine california after that i just kept going i chose to write this book in english maybe there will be a swedish version soon here are some sample pages about alice and sigurd the nice people and neighbours in the swedish countryside and the tradition of drinking boiled coffee there posted by viktor at wednesday october 31 2018 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday august 7 2016 bananas with personality posted by viktor at sunday august 07 2016 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 13 2016 scilla spring opportunist in early spring the light blue scilla flowers have free reign of the lawn nothing else grows at this time but soon the lawn mower will turns all this into a solid green surface enjoy it while it lasts posted by viktor at wednesday april 13 2016 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday april 11 2016 einstein s got your back posted by viktor at monday april 11 2016 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom leif södergren click on the photo to read more about me about me twitter recent articles by me getting old in sweden is a sad affair ageism in sweden read more in my swedish blog about health care in sweden gore vidal you ve found a voice i look forward to reading you entire the comic adventures of a 39 year old divorcée doing it her way o malley has created a character that will burn her way into the psyche as being one of the most outrageously hilarious creations in current literature grady harp new book much of human activity is centered around food we think of food whether we re hungry or not we spend a great deal of time buying it we take hours preparing it well some do we talk about it we read about it in cook books we watch television when chefs talk about it sometimes to excess when we socialize it is often centered around the communal intake of it we give it as gifts food we can t escape it some people become keenly interested in preparing food for themselves and others many have become what we call good cooks usually a degree of creativity is involved together with a keen interest to entertain and a need to take care of others to be a good host it is such people that one remembers and that is how i got started on food folk remembering for example that excellent couple beatrice and clayburn la force on their ranch in alpine california after that i just kept going my hometown gothenburg a series of closeups 224 photos of gothenburg sweden language english and swedish this book consists of a series of closeups of gothenburg it is no history book but hopefully it will generate some curiosity about our city when you walk in a city like london you are struck by britain s colonial past and its enormous wealth which manifests itself in buildings and institutions all over the city when you walk in little london as gothenburg is often called one is keenly aware of its importance as the best fortified city in northern europe two forts still watch over it remnants of the seventeenth century wall and the meandering moat are a reminder of the city s military past positioned on the west coast of sweden gothenburg was once a world leader in ship building and shipping and evolved naturally into a merchant s city the english and scottish heritage here is very important there are clues and traces everywhere one has only to look a garden in my hometown a book in english and swedish about the garden society of gothenburg trädgårdsföreningen the garden society of gothenburg is one of the best preserved early 19th century parks in europe it is situated directly downtown offering lovely walks in the park or in the shaded woodland areas along the canal moat waterfront the garden recently went through a major renovation under the auspices of ulf nordfjell the internationally known landscape designer the aim was to bring the garden back to its old nineteenth century glory carpet bedding returned and five new woodland areas were designed by five international garden designers a superb new rose park was added a successful blending of historical roses and perennials love letters from my swedish grandfather folke to my american grandmother olga 1909 1961 my american grandmother olga met my swedish grandfather folke jonsson in brussels in 1909 olga was 18 and folke 23 they settled in gothenburg and särö sweden olga being american had her family in florida and folke soon came to realize that if you marry a woman from another continent and this woman is charmingly independent innovative and brave and has her own means to boot she is bound to want to visit her native country some time or several times or more than several times to folke a sensitive soul the long separations were quite painful and he suffered till his darling olga returned he talked to her in his frequent letters olga saved all his letters in their original envelopes in neat little bundles held together with different coloured ribbons they were a treasured lifelong testament of his love olga and folke corresponded in english as olga was american and preferred writing in english had my grandfather folke married a swedish woman who had stayed at home there would not be this stack of his letters today he never intended the letters to be shown to others but more than one hundred years have passed since folke wrote them to his darling olga i have enjoyed getting to know my grandfather in this manner and i think others not only relatives should also share that privilege a pictorial companion to the letters in the book above 150 pictures of olga folke 1909 1978 as i finished the book with folke s letters i realized that people might like to see what olga and folke looked like and how they lived so i started a picture book above it covers the time from when folke and olga met in 1909 until olga died in 1978 the picture book has sixty three pages and 150 photos and comments with historical background for the swedish readers there is an edition with swedish text home viktor trappsteg my swedish blog albums flickr pinterest my swedish folk art my youtube about leif sodergren popular posts carpet bedding carpet bedding is a mass planting of low mostly foliage plants in patterns that resemble the designs in oriental carpets it was a popula monika mulder industrial designer with a flair i usually do not pay any particular attention to the designers names at ikea but in two instances i came upon the name of dutch designer lights in swedish windows four weeks before christmas beginning on the first sunday in advent swedes put electric candelabra in their windows and keep them on a engraved swedish glass at its very best simon gate 1923 the oxen heads urn simon gate 1923 the oxen heads urn detail simon gate 1923 the oxen heads urn detail ocean liner nostalgia swedish m s kungsholm 1928 1965 it is always fun to go back to the era of ocean liners the nations that had their own liners had a chance to show the best design and replica 1745 sailing ship in gothenburg want a poster of this have a look here on a sunny july sunday afternoon i visited this remarkable vessel the largest sa a swedish kitchen doing it my way my creative american grandmother olga loved going to flea markets as i do now long before it was fashionable she inspired me to paint gothenburg vintage trams gothenburg sweden has only trams and busses no underground during the tourist season the vintage tram association ringlinien of whales and men man has always been fascinated by whales the novel moby dick is a prime example and when a beached whale appeared unexpectedly in a bay space fascinates in old russian posters i suggested in an earlier entry that occupy posters might one day become valuable it appears that old russian space propaganda poster blog archive 2019 2 august 1 primitive paintings in gällinge church follow me may 1 2018 1 october 1 2016 9 august 1 april 2 march 5 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continues to prove that he is one of the more important writers around a writer who with every book brings into our lives some very strange often exceedingly humorous and now frequently very lonely people his ability to create language for each of his characters is sharp well studied and written and without belittling anyone he in language shows the difference between class and education and exposure likely that comes from his experience in writing plays where characters are alive and moving but with his considerable literary skills he makes his written page people morph into real life folks he is in top form here grady harp june 12 hall of fame reviewer the fantastical mystery of ritterhouse fay a plot with more twists than a mile of dna that s a great mystery story amazon reviewer j dawson our yank coming of age in oxford during the cuban missile crisis of 1962 donovan o malley easily one of the finest comedy writers today amazon top ten reviewer grady harp the jimmy jones skandal 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