I’m Back

‘Thank you for the alphabet’ is back. I want to give the blog a makeover and return to blog land. Here we go!

Postcard

Washington.

Ethiopian dinner in Washington.

Sweet Savannah..

Florida!

War or Peace on the road?

My favorite person is bringing Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ on our road trip. I don’t think I’ll be seeing him much as the book is 1074 pages (with tiny tiny letters). I wonder if this will lead to war or make a peaceful trip…?

I’m planning on reading it. Someday.

The Artist is Present!

Wow. I spent my Thursday at MoMa to see the exhibition with Marina Abramovic. I didn’t know her work before but I was impressed and challenged in many ways by my visit. First of all you can take part in her performance by sitting across from her at the Gallery (for as long as you want). It was interesting to see how Abramovic studied every new face with an intense look. To me it looked almost healing (I was too humble to do it myself).

A secret photo from the performance.

But I did manage to walk by the two naked girls (who are standing surprisingly close!). It feels a bit wrong to write about them in this way when it is not the fact that they are naked that’s interesting. Or maybe it is I don’t know? It definitely doesn’t have anything vulgar to it. It was a very warm and surprisingly comfortable feeling passing them. Maybe it can be described as a loving kind of energy?

I think you can analyze Abramovic’s work in a lot of ways, and me and my favorite person (who was with me) was inspired in different ways by the exhibition. I definitely feel very privileged to have been able to watch her as an artist. You can still make it here. Or you can learn more about her here.

Dying in Virginia

It has been a while since my last update. That is partly because I have had a family visit from Denmark but I am also having a really  hard time reading Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolf. I don’t know if it’s because I find the language a bit difficult to read but I feel like Wolf constantly jumps from one person to another and it is a bit hard for me to keep up with her. It really annoys me because I wanted to be a fan! I’ll give it one more try and if it doesn’t get any better I’ll try to find a Danish translation. I’m not ready to give up on Wolf just yet.

To kill a Mockingbird

When a book has been printed in more than 15 million copies and translated into forty languages you don’t need me to tell you that it’s good. It is. I just finished the book by Harper Lee and I really enjoyed it. Especially near the end where it gets quite dramatic (crime novel readers might not agree with me). The novel takes place in Alabama around 1935 and is told through the eyes of the young (and wise) girl Scout.

The book is about people and human behavior. It questions racial discrimination between Black and White people but it also draws parallels to other cultures. That is why I think that the moral of the book is still very relevant in the 21st century – it’s still a sin to kill a mockingbird!

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us” (quote Miss Maudie) .

Let’s leave birds (and people) in peace.

Iced tea with lemon

I’ve been spending my afternoon like this for a couple of days. So far Spring in New York is my favorite season.