A good read

So many stories I want to dive into

Self-Portrait

doing a self-portrait was suggested here. This is a photo of my sister and me last monday afternoon in the park near to my house. Lately we are told we look alike more and more. The book on my lap is (translated) 'the question for creativity'. I used it in a thesis several years ago. Now I'm reading it with new eyes.

Bedtime Story

Sweet dreams...

Time Travel

The tv shot was made with help from photofunia.com , a lot of fun (via tiene) . I'm wearing a hat I refound during clearing out my closet, I inherited it from my grandma, who spend a lot of money on hats. The book (from around 1935) was a gift from Merel, and a beatiful addition to my collection. Is it realy 2010?

Winter Food

(winter tea, spice cake, stew, beets)

Corner View: Books

Just a quick intuitively chosen selection:

1. Daily Inspiration
2. Just finished this one, a little out of the box and anti, love it. (Erlend Loe)
3. My all time favourite (Chaim Potok)
4. Discovery of the past few years: I love biographies!
5. This book with crafts and games really kept me from sleeping at night when I was a child. (I am afraid nothing changed :))
6. A girls book written around 1920 which can make me, almost hundred years later, laughing with tears. (Cissy van Marxveldt)
7. A charity shop find, with great old technical drawings of inventions like the zeppelin
8. I started reading this book I think like seven years ago and still didn’t finish it, but I like it every time I read a piece. (Jostein Gaarder)

Library Love

When I was little I could spend hours at the library. All those worlds in one place.. . I haven't been a member for a long time, but recently that changed. What an inspiration! The first two are from the American photographer Paul Strand. The lovely snow pattern from a book for babies (!) .

splendid suns

A smiling little boy, with little to smile about. He lives in one room with his father, babybrother and heavily depressed mother. She had to leave her children behind in Afghanistan Today I finished 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' . A bridge between me and them.