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I love Midsummer's Eve! The best day of the year. This year 2011 I celebrated it with a very special person- myself. I sent the family off to a party with friends and enjoyed the silence and walks in the woods with Viktor. My thoughts were spinning, came and went, I let them be in their own spinning. Finally they gave me a terrible headache... but after a while the ache in my shoulders and head went away, I relaxed and simply existed here and now.

På en av promenaderna idag plockade jag mg en bukett blommor med en sexårings teknik. Jag har inte plockat blommor på det viset på säkert 25 år. Varför har jag inte gjort det? När jag var sex år var alla blommor vackra, även ogräsblommorna. Jag arrangerade buketterna efter färg, form, glada och ledsna blommor, stora och små. Jag pratade med dem, pysslade om dem när jag plockade dem, höll dem varsamt i handen på vägen hem. Ofta studerade jag dem på nära håll och förundrades över deras skönhet. Min favoritsaga var sagan om Tummeliten som bodde i en blomma- jag brukade leta efter min egen Tummeliten och hitta på nya sagor om just den blomman. Dagens blombukett hamnade i en vas på köksbordet och ut kröp en tusenfoting. Jag studerade honom ett tag och fascinerades över hans sätt att ta sig fram. Vilken fantastisk midsommar- jag plockade blommor på en sexårings vis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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During one of my walks today I picked a bouquet of flowers with the technique of a six-year-old. I haven't picked flowers using that technique for over 25 years. Why haven't I done that? When I was six years old all the flowers were beautiful, even the weeds. I used to arrange my bouquets in themes: colour, shape, size, happy or sad. I spoke to the flowers, took care of them, held them gently in my hand on my way home. Often I studied them closely and I was amazed by their beuty. My favourite story was the one about a boy that lived in a flower. I used to search for that boy and make up my own stories around each flower I picked. The bouquet of the day ended up in a vase on my kitchen table. A centipede crawled out from the flowers and I sat there and studied him for a while. His way of moving his body forward was fascinating. What an amazing midsummer- I picked flowers like a six-year-old!!!!

