Have yourself a merry little christmas

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Let your heart be light
From now on,
our troubles will be out of sight

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Make the Yule-tide gay,
From now on,
our troubles will be miles away.

Here we are as in olden days,
Happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more.

Through the years
We all will be together,
If the Fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.
And have yourself A merry little Christmas now.

A happy christmas and a brilliantly bright new year with lots of love and great memories to be gathered.

In memory of Anne-Cath Vestly

This woman is one of the things I think about when I think about my childhood. Listen to her voice))) I know you don't understand what they are saying))) She is called the grandmother of the whole of Norway))) She passed away a couple of days ago... She wrote about things that no one else had before, like the father of Aurora that was actually a stay-at-home dad (while studying to be a doctor). And she did it in like the end of the 60s!! And she had the nerve to tell children where they really come from in the 50s))

I feel really sad, but in a good way. It reminds me of how much she and her books meant to me.

Isn't that one of the most beautiful faces you have seen?

Price of Silence

Congratulation to Martti Ahtisaari on the Nobel Peaceprize 2008.

Lovely Tolkien

The first quote down below is of course from the poem about Strider or Aragorn as he is best known. We will be coming to it, but I really like it so I'll post it here.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

We need to remember that not all those who wander are lost...

J.R.R. Tolkien quotes

Some quotes by Tolken:

Not all those who wander are lost.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish.

The wise speak only of what they know.

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

I wish life was not so short, he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.

Paulo Coelho quotes

From the Alchemist:

Wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

You must always know what it is that you want.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action.

The world's greatest lie: At a certain point in our lives we lose control of what's happening to us and our lives become controlled by fate.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny.

List of books

1. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
2. The Odyssey by Homer.
3. The Harry Potter Books by J. K. Rowling.
4. Tao Te Ching
5. Heimskringla by Snorre Sturlasson.
6. The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien.
7. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Ringpoche.
8. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
9. Haugtussa by Arne Garborg.
10. Sverresaga.
11. Older Edda, especially Voluspå and Håvamål.
12. Mahabarata.
13. Dune-series by Frank Herbert.
14. Brand by Henrik Ibsen.
15. Kalevala.
16. Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer & Jacob Sprenger.
17. Asbjørnsen & Moe's fairy tales collection.