Månadsarkiv: januari 2015

One word at a time – we change the world

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Three young souls, with a desire to change the world, one word at a time. That’s a desire I want to support and aid, in any way I can. Because I have the same desire.

Belissa Escobedo, Rhiannon McGavin, and Zariya Allen, members of the Get Lit organization perform ”Somewhere in America” on The Queen Latifah Show.

The greatest lessons, are the one’s you don’t remember learning. 

One word at a time, we change the world.

One action at a time, we change the world.

The quality of those words and those actions, determine what the changed world will be like. It’s our choice, we are the creators! You. And I. Together, and separately.

What quality of words and actions have you chosen today?

Create something from nothing

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As a part of the Create the impossible-project, we get a short audio in the morning 6 out of 7 days of the week. This week Michael Neill set off with a challenge to ”create something out of nothing” each day of the week. Yesterday, my creating was the necklace-hangers from the #cleanse4expansion-project that you can read about here: https://cleanse4expansion.wordpress.com

Not ”having created anything from nothing” today, except a few slides and tweaks to a class on quality and environmental management systems I’m holding Thursday, I got a wee bit stressed when evening rolled in, as I had choir practice for the first time this semester tonight. Luckily, that’s where it was. The creation. As a part of the last bit of warming up our voices, we were to no-no-no-sing in three tunes (Soprano, Second Soprano, Alto) to Twinkle twinkle little star. We did. A couple of times. And then, Jens, our choir leader, told us to break out into our own tunes, experimenting… and we did. I did.

Twinkle twinkleAnd as I sang, simultaneously listening to the myriad of notes soaring out into space, while still clearly being Twinkle twinkle little star…. it came to me:
WOW, talk about creating something out of nothing!

And when the last note faded out…. Jens voiced what I was thinking: no one will EVER hear that specific version of Twinkle twinkle little star, ever again.

Pretty amazing to create something from nothing, having it take form for a minute or two, and then fading away, back into the formless again.

Have you created something from nothing today?

Podcast 3/52 – Selfie anyone?

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In this age of selfies, wefies. selfie sticks and the likes, it might be refreshing to listen to this gem from the RSA Events on From the self to the selfie. I listened to this podcast 3-4 months ago. I truly enjoyed the historical backdrop that gave me some new angles to consider while reflecting upon the whole notion of self-love. Simon Blackburn has written a book called Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love that I’m curious about, after having listened to this talk.

selfiesAnd as I opened Boldomatic to create an image for this blog post (considering ”From the self to the selfie”) this is what’s at the top of my feed.

A world

with a little
less selfies

and a little
more selfless.

Well. What to say other than that I’m hoping more people will listen to this podcast (and don’t miss out on the Q&A starting about half way in, as often is the case, that part is often extra interesting to listen to). If nothing else, because I think it’s too easy a route to take to ”blame the selfies”, judging them and the habit of taking them as being egotistical and self-centered. Without taking into consideration the intent behind it, there’s no way for me to know. And I prefer to avoid unnecessary generalizations, if I can.

What’s your take on selfies? Do you take and post them yourself?
Are there too many of them? Are selfies wrong/bad/evil? What do they tell you about the person posting it?

Nettle and feta cheese pie

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Nettle and feta cheese pie

Nettle and feta cheese pie

Posted a photo of last nights nettle and feta cheese pie on Facebook, and got asked for the recipe. Figured I might as well share it, because it is really yummy! Luckily, I picked a lot of nettles this summer, quickly dipped in boiling water and then froze in ”enough for one pie”-portions. Since I cleaned out the freezer the other day I took one of those portions out and made this pie.

Here’s the recipe, starting with the crust:
100 grams of butter
2,5 dl of flour
1 ml of baking soda
1 ml of salt

Melt the butter.
Mix 2,5 dl flour with 1 ml baking soda and 1 ml salt and pour into the pan with melted butter. Quickly mix it all together (and add a wee bit more flour if needed) and then put the dough into a baking pan (that you don’t have to coat with butter first). Pat it all out, on bottom and sides, and pre-bake for 10 minutes in 200 degree C.

Now for the filling:
1 pack of feta cheese (around 200 grams)
Onion (optional, garlic works well also)
Blanched, well-sqeezed and chopped nettles
4-5 eggs
2-3 dl milk
pepper

I chopped 1 pack of feta cheese and half an onion (finely diced). Place in the pre-baked pie crust. Pour over the mix of lightly beaten eggs, milk and some pepper. Pop pan in oven for 30-40 minutes at 200 degrees C. Today I added some baby spinach leaves onto the feta cheese before pouring over the egg mix.

Eat and enjoy, preferably with a green salad on the side.

As you can tell, it’s a recipe that varies every time I do it, and usually, it turns out really nice. Today I used onion for the first time, normally I do a clove or two of garlic. And if you don’t have any nettles, making the pie with goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria in Latin, kirskål in Swedish) works really well also!

Right now I long for summer, so I can pick more nettles and goutweed, neither of which I have growing in my garden, to my great sorrow. (And yeah, I know, most people would kill to be rid of it….) What’s your favorite recipe with nettles and/or goutweed?

Dela med dig!

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Igår huserade jag på en yrkeshögskola hela dagen, och jag hade väldigt roligt. Jag gillar att vara samskapare av nya insikter och tankar. Fick två telefonmeddelanden under dagen, som jag lyssnade till, och det första av dem var så roligt att jag satt och skrattade när jag lyssnade.

Handen på hjärtat, där hade det kunnat ta slut, eller hur? För hur ofta delar vi med oss av vår upplevelse, vår glädje, vår känsla? Jag vet inte hur du svarar på den frågan, men jag vet att jag skulle kunna dela med mig så väldigt mycket mer.

Och igår så agerade jag faktiskt på det. Jag hade inte tid att ringa tillbaka när jag lyssnade av meddelandet (det gjorde jag i förmiddags istället), men jag hade tid att skicka ett litet mess. Så det gjorde jag, och jag fick ganska omgående ett svar.

Skrattet

Nu kanske du tänker ”Men det där var väl ingenting?” och det är just precis det jag försöker säga. Det tog mig säkert inte ens en minut att knappa in mitt meddelande. Det krävdes nästan ingen insats från min sida för att förmedla mitt tack, men jag tror mig veta (och sen är jag ju läskunnig också) att det uppskattades hos dess mottagare.

Så du, jag har en utmaning till dig. När du läser detta, tänk efter om det finns någon som gett dig en skön känsla den senaste tiden, och hur du skulle kunna förmedla din tacksamhet till vederbörande. Och nu – gör’t! Utmaning antagen?

All I need…

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Tired after a long day, getting up earlier than in a long long time, and not really sleeping that much either all night because I knew I had to get up early. I’ve been away teaching all day, and when I got home, I had some information that really didn’t sit very well with me. So I realized that what I want right now is a little bit of love, and hence, I’ll share this with you, hoping there might be a few who, like me, need to play around in the feeling of love at the moment.

AllYouNeedIsLove

It sure does go a long way, that love-thing, doesn’t it?

Bitterljuvt att känna så fantastiska lärare

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Therese Anthlin bloggade fantastiskt om vikten av mottagare bortom klassrummet, och jag erfor en viss avundsjuka å mina barns vägnar:

Therese svarade:

Och jag fortsatte med en liten utvikning:

Vet du. Jag förstår det. Vilken grej!
Och fasiken alltså @anthlin men det är bitterljuvt att lära känna fantastiska lärare som du här för jag vet inte om mina barn har sådana fantastiska lärare. Kanske. Kanske inte. Men jag har inte en susning… De arbetar inte synligt på det vis som du & många andra gör. Då famlar jag i blindo, & kanske gör antaganden som är felaktiga? 

Jag avslutade min lilla harang med följande:

Jag tycker om att leva i det okända, visserligen, men det är något annat än detta. Jag är säker att det finns lika fantastiska lärare på barnens skolor, som de jag lärt känna i det utvidgade kollegiet. Jag vet att jag kan besöka klassrummet, och det gör jag, även om det blir mer sällan än jag skulle vilja. Och tro mig, jag känner till ganska många av lärarna på skolorna, men jag skulle gärna vilja följa klassens arbete på fler sätt. Därför skulle jag gärna se en ökad transparens på mina barns skolor, och jag tror inte jag är ensam med den önskan?

Egg number one!

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Went out to the chicken coop today, to refill the food dispenser, and suddenly saw that the egg my husband put in the nest as a decoy, all of a sudden wasn’t the only egg in there.

An egg with company

An egg with company – left one placed there by husband as a decoy. It worked!

Immediately sent a text asking him is he put another egg in there…. before realizing how silly I was being, because as he very succinctly told me when I asked if he marked the egg he put in that ”Eggs from the hens wont have Best before-dates stamped on them”. Oh yeah, didn’t think of that…. But today I did, so I picked the other egg upp, and yeah, no best before-date anywhere!

Egg number one - and possibly the egg layer herself.

Egg number one – and possibly the egg layer herself.

We have had out first egg in other words, and I’m thrilled! Now it will be very exciting to see if the other two hens also start laying, and if it will be a daily occurrence or more of a slow start. If you have any experience with chickens, is there anything particular that we should be thinking of now?

 

Create the impossible – cleanse4expansion!

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So, yesterday I started a new 90 day adventure! It was the official kick off date for the Create the impossible-class, and I kicked it off my launching a new blog: cleanse4expansion.
I’m reflagging the initial post here, and will try to keep both blogs going with daily postings, without mixing them up too much.
It would make me very happy if you helped to cheer me along as I try to create the impossible! When did you last try to create something impossible?

Profilbild för Helena RothCleanse4expansion

cleanse4expansionToday marks the start of the Create the impossible-online class, and I look forward to 90 days of challenges and cheers. I’ve already decided upon my project, hence this new blog: cleanse4expansion! (I normally blog at herothecoach.com and will continue to do so during this period as well. If you’re curious as to who I am, check it out over there!)

What I intend to create, which certainly feels impossible, during the next 90 days, is to cleanse my physical and digital home, allowing for spiritual expansion.

I started off thinking about a cleanse of my physical home, intending to go through every nook and cranny, not leaving any stone unturned, with the exception of my husbands things/clothes. But honestly, even though we have foor floors altogether, with an attics, a top floor, a  ground floor, and a basement, going through everything contained within the four walls…

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Podcast 2/52 – On habits

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You already know that The One You Feed is a favorite podcast of mine, so maybe it’s no surprise to you that I’ll include an episode from there early on in this yearlong series. But this is a mini-episode, where Eric Zimmer talks about building habits. It’s a short episode really just summarizing Erics best tips for how to build a habit successfully.

I won’t reveal all the different suggestions, except my favorite tip, which is one of the last ones: Never miss twice. Because I’m sure you, as well as I, have started to create a habit some time, only to realize all of a sudden that we´ve missed a day. Rather than beat yourself up over it and/or toss it all away, going There’s no point to it, I just missed a day, I’ll never be able to get this habit in please go Never miss twice instead. That is a loving and forgiving way to look at yourself and building of habits, because who cares if you miss a day? I mean, really. What’s the big deal? It’s like getting tossed off a horse, get back on again!never miss twice

I hope you listen to the podcast, and come back next Sunday for the next podcast tip.

Which one was your favorite tip? And are there any tips you have on building a habit that wasn’t on Erics list, that you’d like to share?