People! Carbon based life forms going from point A to point B during a life span of approximately 71.4 years. A fascinating specimen that has been probe worthy for aliens for decades (not a scientific fact). Even though the very thought of an alien existence scares the living crap out of me, we do share a common interest - ethnology! Being nosy and all up peoples personal space is insanely fun and for an actor it is a gold mine when it comes to creating a fictional creature to dress in for the stage. I find strangers spellbinding and a random weirdo approaching me from time to time (within a safe environment) has led to some amazing stories that I am going to share with you now. Los Angeles airport, 2012. I was traveling alone on my way back to Sweden and had sat down to grab some lunch before take off. While scouting the surrounding area for something to look at in lack of a tv, this Japanese, Men in Black suited, business man sits down next to me. There were no one else around ...
A Latin phrase meaning "blank slate". To me it means starting over and that is what this blog is gonna be all about - starting life a new! For some starting over can mean changing the way you eat, exercise more or change once cognitive behaviour. I have tried all of the above... several times... but it always ended me up flat on my back. I have fought myself out of depression, anorexia, never finding my one true love, stagnation, captivity and bitterness... and still... no happiness?! Like a character from a video game you goof around with, I have been bumping into that concrete wall over and over and over again not understanding why I could not get anywhere. Until that very same wall came tumbling down on me. My revelation came then and there. Pinned down in a dark, impenetrable hole I "saw the light". Now, I am not a believer in God per say, but something finally opened my eyes. A voice screamed at the top of its lungs - Why are you not liste...
We all know that flora can speak, and if you did not know this - now you know! Even one of my all-time favourite scary movie-makers M Night Shyamalamahaan has shown this in The Happening (love, love, love). Their language is far too complex for us Homo Sapiens to understand, but that has not stopped us from creating a language for them but for us to use ourselves. This is called Floriography - the art of communicating through different types of flowers. Giving flowers to someone on different occasions most of us has done at some point in our lives. To celebrate, to apologize... to say goodbye... But I had never thought about Floriography when I have purchased or picked my bouquets... I had only gone by their looks. What if the flowers I have given away has communicated something other than what I had in mind? Maybe I have been rude without knowing it, or declared an emotion I definitely did not mean to convey? There are flowers out there that suit certain situations o...
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