Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen
Watching how these people are waking up with the sun in the picture “A new day”, reminds me of being more present in my own day.
The picture is made by the Norwegian painter Else Hagen and is hanging in my livingroom. More about her in an article I have written here.
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen
Happiness is a good book and the smell of orange.
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen
When my computer gets hung up I restart it and the machinery works as new. If I have made any errors in my document I delete them, and after doing some changes in my file I simply push the refresh button. This is how Easter and the man on a cross works for me, that we are always given these three options if we want to start all over again.
This print has been hanging in my office for 20 years, but unfortunately I don’t know the name of the painter.
I can’t recall any Easter without having Anthon Berg’s Chocolate Marzipan Easter Eggs on my table. Each egg fits perfectly in the mouth and makes the taste buds dance with joy when it crunches between the teeth and melts on the tongue.
The Danish brand Anthon Berg is purveyors to the Royal Danish court and has been producing their fine chocolate over 125 years. In addition to focus on taste and texture, they produce chocolate that meets the highest standard of aesthetics. And that I like.
You can purchase the eggs all over Scandinavia and from scandinavianbutik.
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen
The blooming of Forsythia signals the arrival of spring. Its beauty lies in the manner the yellow flowers appear before the leaves.
The meaning of Forsythia in flower language is anticipation and I can’t think of a better word for expressing my thoughts about spring, sun and summer at the moment.
Here down south they are blooming all over the place and the other day I went to a friend’s garden and made a lovey bouquet.
Photos: Arild De Lange Nilsen
When I returned from warm and lovely Rome to rainy Norway the other day I realized that I really miss the summer. So this morning I enjoyed looking through some pictures from last summer where I literally could smell the roses and feel the warmth from the sun.
The day these pictures were taken the photographer Arild De Lange Nilsen, LANGE NILSEN FOTODESIGN and I spent some funny hours playing around in my garden with my red sofa. The pictures were actually taken for featuring an article in the Norwegian woman’s magazine Tara about the importance of having places for retreat in life. Three women were interviewed and I was one of them. In the article I talk about my office in my garden BOKSTUDIO where I often withdraw in order to gain creativity and peace.
You can read the article here (in Norwegian only).
After being diving into the wonder of ancient Rome for some time, it was actually rather refreshing to visit MAXXI, the National Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture (Il MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo) where we enjoyed this major architectural work. MAXXI was built in 2009 and is designed by the Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, featuring both innovative and spectacular forms.
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen
“I see the MAXXI as an immersive urban environment for the exchange of ideas, feeding the cultural vitality of the city”.
-Zaha Hadid
