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Le Portillon
portillon.wordpress.com
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My words and photographs
#1856 in All , #67 in General Lifestyle

Birthday

Today is my twenty-second birthday. It’s snowing and I’ve been given a bouquet of white tulips. Soon there’ll be a table full of my favorite pastries and I’m feeling rather lo...

2 days ago 2 people like this

February x3

I. Minus twelve and the trees were still. II. Looking at a typewriter unable to write. III. Being with you.

04 feb 12 3 people like this

Only love can break your heart

02 feb 12 3 people like this

February

Small things that make me happy right now - I’ve bought pink tulips and plane tickets to Berlin. The array of fifties dresses currently being stored in my closet. Listening to classical music a...

01 feb 12 3 people like this

Overnight, immediately

I wish it could magically become spring, overnight, immediately.

26 jan 12 2 people like this

Into Eternity

I have taken more photographs during this year than ever before. Looking at them makes me feel very pleased in an almost silly way. My archive of photography tells me that I have been depressed and h...

29 dec 11 3 people like this

December III

Merry christmas my dear readers and visitors. I have really appreciated receiving your comments and letters this year, like the one before and all of the five (!) ones that have passed since I first ...

23 dec 11

Wednesday

Last night I baked my favorite small cakes, topped with raspberry jam, and placed them in vintage boxes – perfect for sweet things. Today I’m giving them away as christmas gifts to some o...

21 dec 11 2 people like this

Snowy Landscapes

Allt ser litet och stilla ut. Med vit snö som lyser, blank is, en stor tyst skog omkring mig. (the first snow fell on saturday)

19 dec 11 2 people like this

December II

“But I am good at heart, really.” “Of course. I know that, but not everybody does.”

13 dec 11 3 people like this

Selfportrait

Something resembling me through a mirror and a lens. All those shields.

09 dec 11 2 people like this

Lördagsmorgon

Med Tove Jansson. -Men vem ska trösta knyttet med att säga ungefär: på natten blir det hemska mycket värre än det är. (A children’s book that makes me dream, and long for small adventures).

03 dec 11 2 people like this

In December

I’ll be - Going ice-skating Buying books that have made me dream Listening to Chet Baker Sings often Wearing my softest nineteen-fifties cardigan And the pale yellow dress below Admiring everyt...

01 dec 11 4 people like this

Leftovers III

And my memories are light and soft and silent as they should be.

12 nov 11 2 people like this

I fell into the arms of Venus de Milo

Three songs I’m listening to today, tomorrow and nearly always – A kiss to build a dream on – Louis Armstrong Dreaming – Blondie Etude for piano no. 21, Op 5,9 – Frédéri...

30 oct 11 2 people like this

October IV

Reading quotes by monsieur. Nabokov: ‘and the rest is rust and stardust.‘ (Photographs from Estonia and Finland) My grandmother’s childhood cat running out of the frame makes me lau...

24 oct 11 3 people like this

Etude no. 21, Op. 25,9

Across the sea, eating figs while wearing the softest fifties dress. (All these items I have kept to myself, as it no longer feels immediately of importance to share new purchases or even new thought...

22 oct 11 2 people like this

October III

I have dreamt about you, and forgotten everything.

18 oct 11 4 people like this

October II

From an afternoon spent along the channel. As distant as days - My imagination pulls me into the night always. I want to be everywhere.

06 oct 11 2 people like this

October

First of October - I. Dots and stripes for breakfast. II. A glimpse of roses from my first roll of film ever. III. Reading this poem by Brautigan a lot and smiling at it. IV. My lapel before I stuck ...

01 oct 11 3 people like this

Last Weekend

Last weekend looked something like this. Through small forests and old streets, listening to wild birds singing.

29 sep 11

Hjärtat slår sällsynta slag

My sailor jacket. I think I’ll be living in it this autumn.

26 sep 11 1 person likes this

And my love is in the sea, in dreams

Friday afternoon - Autumn looked beautiful and my sailor jacket arrived all perfect.

23 sep 11 2 people like this

Stängda ögonlock, allting tynar bort

“Stängda ögonlock, allting tynar bort. Jag tänker på kärlek och hortensior.” “En sommardag, växter blommar. Ett vaket sinne inuti en livlös kropp. Storebror och jag går över gatan t...

22 sep 11 1 person likes this

Favorites

Some of my favorite things. These books I’ve been reading, my beloved little bag from Palmgrens and an old photograph.

21 sep 11 1 person likes this

September II

Still here, a pocket full of letters; maybe love, too. (And perhaps from tonight I shall be writing these correspondence cards, or what they are, pretending to be sending them into the dark, to the s...

20 sep 11 3 people like this

September

Oh – nothing.

02 sep 11 3 people like this

I walk through your dreams and invent the future

Earlier today: framed one of my analogue photographs mostly for fun. Then went out in my pale pink summer dress despite being ill and it only made me feel worse. Staying in tonight listening to silly...

27 aug 11 3 people like this

Hair

Self-portraits from a rainy saturday.

20 aug 11 3 people like this

Coffee with milk and thick trees

From this morning when we had breakfast on the balcony. Coffee with milk surrounded by thick trees. Listening to pretty musical notes – made me smile quite a lot. Every breakfast should be some...

18 aug 11 4 people like this

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