The Escape from Lolcatraz, or Blogging as an Escape from Reality!?!?

An ESCapade

Lets get pseudo-philosophical! (I discuss from a first-person perspective, only because I prefer it, not due to some self-related experience.) I have been looking upon blogging as a kind of escape-way when life gets dull and boring, or when I am overwhelmed of creativity, or just can't sleep and care for some social interplay. Now, I face almost the opposite side of the coin. When, into deep serious states in life, that needs lots of reflection, a "LOL" can destroy the reflection and I have to start the thinking-process all over again. Today the online sphere is an ongoing parallell world, side by side, the physical world. Both worlds are happening in the real world of the humans everyday life. Escapes can be looked upon as intellectual decisions needed when aiming for a timelimited goal. Before escapes was thought of as something negative - what has generated this paradigmshift in thinking? The "ESC-key ", of course. The computers has tought us that we are the agent that can descide, before we thought it was all about destiny ;-)

Wonderings by

Anna-Lys

It gets lighter when its dark

If You dig deeper it might get hot ...

It's snowing outside and the Swedish melancholic soul starts to wake up. Still living in they grey scale but slowly slowly visualising a lighter environment, that will lift us up to higher former of being ... here ... alive and interplaying with the outside of Self.

~ Just an other Self-Anna-Lyse

Art:
Georgia O'Keeffe "Black Iris"

A post aimed to
celebrate the 122nd
anniversary of the
birth of Georgia O'Keeffe
on the 15:th of November

Remains ...

Autumn means colour and leaves
so I got to leave my "cave" for
the Winter - to the mainland.

Meaning living in a world of
concrete, asphalt and stress
longing for paradise - the island.

Bright Light (mangold)

May I proudly present something from my garden?
I love this mangold, and use it in my daily salad.

I still have not enough electricity to run around
in the Blogoland, but my Garden Land is OK ;-)


C U

and many kisses
without viruses ;-)

No Day is The Same

What are YOU doing?


;-)


(( Hugs ))

Anna Croft on the island

The life on a croft not being used since 1942 are like a journey of discovery every day. I told You before about my kayak project, To tell You the truth, I am far from being there! I am still in the process of organising my every-day life according to not having any electricity. And a lot of my spare-time goes to fixing up the place and the interior. I have recently found a lovely stone garden underneath 60 years of old wilderness of free growing grass and trees, as well as a lovely pond in the garden.

This island in the archipelago of the coast of West-Sweden, are mostly mountains and forest, and my croft is at the very top of one of this heights (ohhh I am a highlander! The picture above is taken from the seaside) This croft and its farm is built into the nature in a very creative way, as they don't do any more. I have my own well with fresh water from the very deep springs in the mountain. But, the old building for cows and sheep are gone long time ago, only the stones from the ground it stood on are left. The beautiful and large root cellar I have to repar, because a tree liked to grow inside and through the stone roof, but it is beautiful.

In the harbour I have access to two small boats, havn't had time for fishing, yet. The two most important projects right now is to set up the sun cell system and and combine it with water turbines for the rainy days :-D

It is about 2 kilometer to the closest neighbour, where I have access to as much horse-back riding as I want, and have time for. I am working full time at the uni in the big city, imagine to come home each day to this silent paradise!

Of course here is lots of wild animals around me, both small and huge, the other nightfall I had a huge elk in the garden, he stood there for a long time and I was sitting in the window amazed over my new way of living, close to the nature, only using the natures resources.


Until next time,

(( LOVE ))

Anna Croft

Sveriges Nationaldag 6 juni & EU-val 7 juni

Vi bor i ett underbart land
med den vackraste natur
vi har alla rätt att nyttja
så varför gör vi dum gyttja?

I morgon går folket till urnan
för att rösta för natur & klimat
för rätten till personlig integritet
lägg din röst på Miljöpartiet de Gröna!

Personlig integritet är en mänsklig rättighet och måste få ett stärkt skydd i grundlagen. Miljöpartiet anser att utvecklingen mot ett övervaknings-samhälle måste vändas. Omoderna, smutsiga bränslen och kärnkraft har ingen plats i ett hållbart samhälle. Miljöpartiet vill stoppa all utvinning av olja och kol, och väljer hellre billiga och rena energislag än farlig och dyr kärnkraft. Den nya tekniken är redan här och med moderna energikällor och ny infrastruktur kan vi både rädda klimatet och skapa ett samhälle med nya gröna jobb, högre livskvalitet och vettig konsumtion.

Out of Touch

Friends Dancing Around the Screen,
I will not be living with my machine
I will be moving into my dear cave
combined with working as a slave

You will always
be in my mind





until later


Anna-Lys

Overhead in Waves

Man is not rational;
there is intelligence
only in what encompasses him.

Heraclitos