autumn in the pyrenees

Winter is almost here. We are piling wood, lighting the wood burner a bit earlier each day. After the big rains of last weekend the leaves are falling fast. The whole valley is out to restore the damage of the water, the sun is out and we take a walk.

Flood

We have been spending three days in the house because of mayor rain. It has rained for three days and three nights non stop and most of the time everything outside of our windows was white with water. Code red all through the valley, encouraged NOT to leave the house. So we made tea, read…

fire

It has been more than a month since my last post. The last weeks in Amsterdam felt like in between time. We have been back for three weeks now. T has joined us last weekend and we can start to find a routine again as a family. But first we still need to shake off…

insecure

First the neediness made its entrance and now, two weeks before going back to France, so has the feeling insecure. I observe it like it is happening to someone else. Like an experiment. What changes when you drop out of the ratrace? And what happens when you move back in? Just two months ago I felt so strong about my…

neediness 2

The neediness is back. One month in Amsterdam and the restless feeling of wanting is getting under my skin again. I am so aware of it now and it is how I used to feel all of the time before. To think of what I need, what I should buy, what would be nice. The urge for new…

greenland

Tomas is off to Greenland for the shooting of his film, both the location and the shooting are quite intense. He sent these pictures today. So beautiful and sad at the same time.

nothing

Yesterday someone asked me what I was up to. And I said ‘nothing’. ‘I am doing nothing’, and I smiled an apologizing smile. Later on my way home I thought how I came up with that insane answer. I may do ‘nothing much’ in the light of our economy and in status driven eyes. But…

all the same

How come we all live life in the same way? We all live in a house, sleep in a bed with our partner, the kids in a different room. Have three meals with almost the same kind of food. We have a telephone, a computer, a laptop, a bike, a car, carry a bag with…

strong

I was 13 when my parents divorced and I understood that the world is not safe. Two years later I had my first panic attack and by the time I was 18 I had my first full blown burn-out. I was too afraid, too tired and too lonely to sleep, eat or breathe. My life…

to want

There are a thousand things to say about the contrast of coming to the city after the peace of the mountains. It really has been a life away from the world, and living in a city like Amsterdam is being total part of the world again. The energy that anything can happen is quite fantastic….