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Just a few words to end this week. I am so found of walking and running. Showing a few photos from today. I wanted to keep them for myself, but ok, I share them with you. Nature is beautiful.

Anna

Historical review is sometimes important. I feel worried about today´s school and the teaching of history. I feel worried about the future since today´s politicians don´t care about the future; they only care about staying in power.

As usual I follow the news and I try to summarize what´s happening. Today I think about what happened in the US in the 1970s. Watergate. That was a big scandal but what is important, to my opinion, is that order and law seemed to work. Here, I would like refer to my own country were I live. Sweden. Politicians are sometimes interrogated. This is shown in tv, but they are never held responsible. They are allowed to waste taxpayers money. A few years ago Swedish government spent a lot, a lot of money where they, more or less, ruined Vattenfall (a Swedish electricity company). Billions of Swedish crowns disappeared. I followed the news and what was shown was “lekstuga”. I could translate that to a playground for politicians. If politicians never are hold responsible, that means that they are allowed to waste money and more or less just play. They need to show responsibility. They need to know that they, as well as all other people, could be judged by law.

I am  also worried about Swedish economy. Sweden has a deficit of money. That means that we have to borrow money to have the economy going. Is that sound? Previous prime minister of Sweden Göran Persson once said “Den som är satt i skuld är icke fri”. Today Sweden is held by a minority government by the social democrats. Their politics with regard to economy is not congruent.

What Sweden needs is to have like the USA, two parties to choose between with clear messages. Right now Swedish politics is too messy. I feel ashamed of Sweden.

Anna

Today is an important day for all people on earth. It is the UN day. Some years ago I went to New York and my greatest memory is my visit to the United Nations. I went for a guided tour and there were nationalities from all over the world even though we were a small group.

The second world war was in focus, and it is also remembered in today´s Uppsala Nya tidning (vide infra). A lot of books, films, tv interviews etc have tried to understand what happened during world war two. However, the terrible, un-understandable that happened at that time point has happened in several other countries also; for example in Rwanda, previous Yugoslavia, today´s Syria. There are endless examples.

Maybe the biggest challenge is to answer the question “how is it possible that it can happen again?”. This is an simple question, but it has a very complex answer. In many dimensions. I cannot give you an answer, but unsolved conflicts between people is a part of the answer.

People need identity and to be seen. If I turn to myself, I am grown up with two identities. Lappish and Swedish. It would have been easier for me with just one identity. However, this is very common today. Growing up with double, or even more identities. This includes a lot. Culture, traditions, religion, languages, relatives all over the world etcetera. So, it is very complex. No answer such as yes or no; you need to develop and elaborate your answer. In a thousand years, to put things in perspective, I believe that these so called borders will not be so strong. I think that the world will be more peaceful because all these factors will be mixed up. At this time point other things such as access of water, food, climate change etc will determine the setup of the world.

To return to the UN, I have noticed that a lot of people don´t think that they act. They talk, but no actions. However, they send an important message that peace, not war should prevail.

Anna

PS. I better be careful with what I write since my father reads what I write

Hi! Feel like starting to write again. It has been like an exam. Writing. So I have just needed to do different things than writing for a while, but now my urge is there again. I am writing dependent. Hope you are fine. Seasons are also changing. Autumn is approaching winter. This weekend time will fall back an hour.

Sweden is in chock today because of a terrible crime that was committed at a school. Today is different from when I went to school. Time has changed. There is much more violence. I should have some statistics to support my feeling, but I don´t. It is just a general reflection. You just have to be more careful. I don´t like that. That is a threat to freedom.

I don´t want to think about how many hours I have spent on my book. Instead of traveling. However, I think I am at that time point of my life right where it suited to have a break from traveling. Spend time with my parents, especially since my mother has Alzheimer´s disease. I wish I could have a dog where I live but it is not possible right now. So I meet my sweeties once in a while. We have always had dogs in our family so I cannot live without dogs.

We have always had hunting dogs, and I can tell you that I have spent hours searching for dogs in the woods. Since we have had many dogs I know that they vary a lot with regard to their hunting instinct. Some dogs never stop hunting whereas some dogs hunt for a fifteen minutes of so and then they stop. They want to go home so they are very different. When I grew up I went cross country skiing a lot and I always had a dog with me. We went fast. I liked that feeling.

Right now there is not so much to have photos of. Unfortunately. So, not photos tonight.

Lots of love,

Anna

Yes. That is true. It is autumn. I almost thought that it was going to get minus degrees today, but it started to rain instead. Ok, enough about weather. What is happening in my life? I feel a little empty to be honest. I will never be ready with writing of my book, but finally I have submitted. I had to let it go out of my hands.

I feel empty and I have put years of work and thoughts into it. At the end I have struggled with Swedish language. I found an old dictionary that I had and I used it a lot. Old words. Words that I have forgotten. But should I use them if they are not used today? However, I don´t like when words are forgotten. A language loses its diversity.

Right now reading magazines are fine. To follow the trends this autumn. Then, my project will be to read a book with good Swedish. And with a good story. I will read from a different perspective now. I am also thinking of sport. I miss running. It has been so beautiful out doors but I have to continue with an indoor activity. Still thinking about trying tennis.

Ok. Small thoughts about my daily life.

Anna