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Are you scanning those who you meet?

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Hej pa er! Det ar fint vader idag. Kallt, men uppfriskande. Jag borjade med en lang promenad med Thor vilket blev en underbar start pa dagen. Nu dricker jag kaffe och vantar pa att tvatten ska bli klar.
Nagot jag har tankt pa ar hur Thor gillar alla hundar och alla manniskor (tills motsatsen visas med tex. ett hogt skall eller liknande). Han vill saga hej till alla. Imorse traffade vi en man och hans hund. Vi har traffat dem forut och T och hunden har nosat pa varandra. Mannen ar japansk och verkar inte kunna engelska och jag tror inte ens han kan prata riktigt och hunden har hoftproblem med en sele fram och en sele bak. Thor har inga tankar pa att den har hunden ar annorlunda, han ar lika glad att saga hej. Mannen skiner upp som en sol. Jag forsoker halla lite tightare i T just for att han har lite mer energi an den andra hunden men jag drar inte T darifran for jag marker att mannen blir glad av att hans hund far traffa en annan hund. Kanske det inte hander sa ofta?
Som manniskor scannar vi alla. Vi stannar inte och pratar med alla, vi gar forbi nagon som ser konstig ut och vi ignorerar mycket som hander runt omkring. Tank sa manga vi ignorerar som kanske ar jattetrevliga. Vi scannar aven de hemlosa. Tyvarr ar det ju manga som “jobbar” som hemlos/tiggerska at andra som ager dem och att bidra till det kanns inte ratt. Men de som faktiskt behover hjalp, vi borde ju inte ignorera dem, eller hur? 
Lite djupa tankar sahar pa sondag morgon, men jag tycker att det ar viktigt. Nar vi jobbade med de underbara skadespelarna med autism forra sommaren marktes det att hastarna inte brydde sig om ifall nagon hade autism eller inte. Djur marker av nar nagot skiljer sig, men valjer att ta varje person som han/hon ar vilket jag tycker ar helt fantastiskt. Thor moter alla likadant. Han lar sig mer och mer att lasa av ifall en hund eller dess agare inte vill stanna och socialisera, men han provar garna med nyfikenhet att saga hej. Vi borde kanske lara oss mer av det. Vi behover inte stanna alla manniskor vi moter pa gatan, det skulle ju ta evigheter att komma nagonstans da, men vi bor inte scanna de vi moter och ha forutfattade meningar kring nagon vi inte kanner. Vi bor mota alla neutralt och med ett oppet sinne. 

Hi guys! It’s nice weather today. Cold, but refreshing. I started with a long walk with Thor, which was a wonderful start to the day. Now I’m drinking coffee waiting for the laundry to finish.
Something I’ve been thinking about is how Thor likes all dogs and all people (until the opposite shows for example a loud barking or similar). He wants to say hello to everyone. This morning we met a man and his dog. We’ve met them before and T and the dog have sniffed at each other. The man is Japanese and does not know English and I don’t think he even can talk properly and the dog has hip problems with one harness in the front and one back. Thor has no thoughts of that this dog is different, he is just as happy to say hello. The man brightens up like the sun. I try to keep T a little tighter in just because he has a little more energy than the other dog but I don’t drag T away from there cause I notice that the man is happy that his dog gets to meet another dog. Maybe that doesn’t happen very often?
As humans, we scan everybody. We don’t stop and talk to everyone, we walk past someone who looks funny and we ignore a lot that happens around us. Just think how many we ignore that perhaps are really nice. We also scan the homeless. Unfortunately, there is people who “work” as homeless/beggars to others who owns them and to contribute to that doesn’t feel right. But, those who actually need help, we shouldn’t ignore them, right?
Some deep thoughts here on Sunday morning, but I think it is important. When we worked with the wonderful actors with autism last summer, it showed that the horses didn’t care if someone had autism or not. Animals notice when something is different, but choose to take each person as he/she is, which I think is absolutely amazing. Thor meets everybody the same way. He learns more and more to read if a dog or its owner doesn’t want to stay and socialize, but he is keen to try with curiosity to say hello. We should perhaps learn more from that. We don’t need to stop all the people we meet on the street, it would take forever to get somewhere then, but we shouldn’t scan those we meet and have preconceived ideas about someone we don’t know. We should face everyone by being neutral and with an open mind.

Wife time

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Vi har precis atit en riktig New York pizza som var enorm (kartongen med resterna fick knappt plats i kylen!!). Nu sover valpen, mannen spelar sitt datorspel och jag har min egna wife time med ett glas vitt, tyrkisk peber och en bok pa fran google, #GIRLBOSS av Sophia Amoruso. Vi har saklart av baseball pa i bakgrunden. 

We have been eating a real New York pizza that was enormous (the box with the leftovers barely fit in the fridge!!). Now the puppy is sleeping, my husband is playing his computer game and I have my own wife time with a glass of white, tyrkisk peber (= licorice) and a book from google, #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso. Of course we also have baseball on in the background. 

Memory: Christina Aguilera

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2003, 11 ar sedan, gav jag min alskade lillasyster en konsertbiljett till Christina Aguilera i Stockholm i fodelsedagspresent. Min da basta van och hennes lillasyster (som var basta kompis med min syster) foljde med oss. Vi var alla stora Christina Aguilera fans. Hur skulle vi komma dit? Min kompis hade da en pojkvan med korkort och bil, sa han foljde ocksa med. Wow, det var sa stort att aka till Stockholm sjalva och att vi skulle fa se Aguilera live, sa coolt!!
Min kara far sa till oss att vi formodligen inte fick ha kameror inne pa Globen, sa jag lamnade min i bilen. Oh boy vad jag angrar det. Alla hade kameror saklart. De maste nyligen ha andrat reglerna. Jag hamnade langst fram och kunde nastan ta pa Christina. Vilken upplevelse! Och dansarna var sa otroligt duktiga, tyckte jag.
Det ar verkligen en av det basta minnen jag har!!

Varfor jag kom att tanka pa det var for att jag lyssnade och sjong som en galning till hennes album tidigare idag. Jim tog en nap och Thor och jag dansade runt i vardagsrummet. Hennes rost ar ju helt fantastisk! 

2003, 11 years ago, I gave my dear sister a concert ticket for Christina Aguilera in Stockholm for her birthday. My then best friend and her younger sister (that was a best friend of my sister) came with us. We were all big Christina Aguilera fans. How would we get there? My friend had then a boyfriend with a drivers license and a car, so he came with us too. Wow, it was a big thing to go to Stockholm by ourselves and we were gonna see Aguilera live, so cool!!
My dear father told us that we probably couldn’t bring cameras in to Globen, so I left it in the car. Oh boy how I regret that. Everyone had cameras of course. They must have just changed the rules. I ended up in the front and could almost touch Christina. What an experience! And the dancers were so incredibly good, I thought. 
It really is one of the best memories I have!!
Why I started to think about it was cause I listened and sang like a crazy person to her albums earlier today. Jim took a nap and Thor and I danced around in the living room. Her voice is so fantastic!
//Photo credit to whoever took the two pictures above in Globen//

CPR

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Igar hade Emma och jag en trevlig sushi middag i Bushwick. Efterat gick vi till kvallens forestallning: cpr – Center for Performance Research, Chez Bushwick Presents Lilja Rúriksdóttir
Sa roligt att se Liljas koreografi. Det kandes som att jag tittade pa Lilja under rehearsal i tre andra personers kroppar. Dansarna gjorde verkligen ett bra jobb. 
Det regnar idag. Vi hade tankt aka till Brooklyn, men det kanns inte sa kul i regnet. Vi far se vad vi gor idag. Thor verkar trott idag, ligger mest och sover i sin lilla “soffa” har bredvid oss. 

Yesterday, Emma and I had a great sushi dinner in Bushwick. After that we went to the evenings performance: cpr – Center for Performance Research, Chez Bushwick Presents Lilja Rúriksdóttir.
So fun to see Lilja’s choreography. It felt like I was watching Lilja in rehearsal in three other peoples bodies. The dancers really did a good job.
It is raining today. We thought we would go to Brooklyn, but it doesn’t feel that fun in the rain. We we’ll see what we end up doing. Thor seems tired today, mostly sleeping in his little “couch” here next to us. 

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