I will be attending Midsummer Festival this year. Midsummer celebration, aka Summer Solstice, aka the beginning of summer is different depending on the culture. The event that I will be attending this weekend is having a traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration. From the wikipedia page on Midsummer celebration – In modern Sweden, Midsummer’s Eve and Midsummer’s Day (Midsommarafton and Midsommardagen) were formerly celebrated on 23 June and…
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Solid living, as taught by my father [Fathers Day 2012]
My father is a great reminder of how life should be lived, simple. Surround yourself with importance. Don’t partake in the things in life that don’t matter. Don’t go after fame or fortune, for that won’t bring happiness, nor satisfaction. Reference points that I learned from my dad Take it easy There is not no…
Festival Fashion
While I only have attended one festival this summer, I have a pretty good take on festival fashions this season. Mass style publications provide a simple step by step process for the public to follow. See: Instyle’s, what the ‘star’s wore’ Some of these popular fashions made an apparance at the Northwest Folklife Festival. Granted that…
One year ago today
It was one year ago today (June 01, 2011) that I left my home of twenty plus years for the unknown, to a place that I’ve never visited, but intuition told me was the right place for me. Seattle, Washington; it made sense; I love the climate, overcast, rainy, and cool. Culture is rich and…
What I learned from my mother – Mothers Day 2012
Today is a day to bring attention to one of hardest, but most fulfilling jobs, motherhood. To be completely honest, my mother taught me lessons in life more in what not to do by how she lived her life. She had a rough childhood, and therefore my siblings and I had rough childhood; less extreme then what…
For your Listen – Euro tracks :Sweden, First Aid Kit
Thanks to NPR : First Listen, I was introduced to the band First Aid Kit. And thanks to the old school method of paper and staple, I saw that First Aid Kit is playing a show at the local music hop stop in First Hill, The Crocodile on April 11th. Hailing from Sweden, this singing sister duo has been composing music since…