Enjoy it too, if you have not done so yet.
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Monthly Archives: May 2017
From a fair sailor I admire Down Under. Sara Toa is is gifted writer I read from my island with delight… A change of blog won’t stop me from enjoying this wonderful wordsmith of prose.
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Krásná (#wearewoman #3)
I owe her the back cover photograph of my book, a lifetime friendship on a plate, a well of laughters and shared moments of emotions…
We are woman, beautiful.
I met Aneta Lukzikova through Anita Orheim (see blog post “Vakker #wearewoman [3]“) over a decade ago. Like Anita, Aneta was then in academic transit and decided to establish her own “hame” on this latitude. Our friendship blossomed through time and shared slices of life. We earned each other’s trust and respect gracefully, travelled the length and breadth of our islands, and even crossed the sea last summer to reconvene with Anita on her homeground for a weekend of sheer happiness in and around Fana. I had promised Aneta a beer in Bergen, we did just that. Today, we know ourselves pretty much inside out.
Of this, I’m very proud. Forever grateful to have her friendship, her love and trust as a woman and a close friend, so close I can call her my Czech sister.
For you, dear Aneta, I am going to improvise you a poem as I’m typing,
We have travelled so many roads,
crossed many bridges,
sea, earth marks.
You have
listened and dried
so many blueprints from cold rain;
laughed at my face by
the White Wife,
helped me to
rise from
earth
and
mud…
We crossed the sea to
share a pint,
taste simple pleasures in Bryggen to reconvene with
our own clan made in Norge.
And every time
I needed
you,
dear Czech sister,
you offered me a hearth and smiles.
I am in awe of your pure
heart.
© Nat Hall 2017