I think this New Year will be remembered for ever in Canadian history.
Chief Theresa Spence are on day 20 in her hungerstrike with the demand to have a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and no one else. His answer is he has no time to see her.
What is happening? Please correct me if I had misunderstood something here. Of course reality if complex and this is a huge field of history through the years and politics today that I don't have enough knowledge about. But from my view sitting here in a foreigh country I try to write down the frames of it to spread the word.
Idle No More is a protest movement among The First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples, and non-aboriginal supporters of the First Nations, of Canada, and partly also international.
They protest against broken treaties and unrightful laws that take their land and water resources, and keep them living in some extreeme conditions in some areas. A housing crisis where the houses has no electricity, nor plumbing. Health issues due to pollutions of nature from industries and mines. The hopelessness is causing suicide among young people. One suicide is one too much if you ask me.
A year ago it was reported in international news about the situation in Canada. Now a year later it's status quo. This is why chief Theresa Spence demand a meeting with no one else but Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a proper meeting on national level. First Nations meets Nation of Canada.
Canadian News:
CBC News
International news:
Al Jazeera on Canada
A non-native Canadian speaks about what's going on about Harpers neglect to find time to have a meeting with Chief Theresa Spence who are on hungerstrike.
The Bear Cat's blogg
Idle No More on Facebook:
Idle No More
Sign petition at Avaaz:
Chief_Theresa_Spence_help_end_her_Hunger_Strike
Eva
måndag 31 december 2012
söndag 30 december 2012
Får i kål. Everyone can take a small step for the climate
Eva goes blogging about food....
I'll get back to music soon, there's so much good music I've heard lately!
But here's something that interests and concerns me much too.
With the climate change in mind we can all contribute with trying to buy food that is seasonal and not requiring too much transportation and energy for growing.
Here's a favourite dish, "Får i kål" = Sheep in cabbage. In Norway it's a national dish, many farms there have to be sheep-farms due to the landscape. Very steep hillsides is the place where the sheep spend their summers.
1 kg lambs meat, cut in cubes. I used the front part of the lamb.
1 small white cabbage
6 big carrots (my addition to the original recipie)
butter for frying
a little bit of wheet flour
salt
allspice (kryddpeppar)
Cut big pieces of white cabbage and start and end with white cabbage in the pot. In between you can mix all the other ingredients, sprinkle a little bit wheet flour and salt between layers. Add some allspice, I used them whole, not grinded.
First layer cabbage is fried in butter.
Next layers are just put on top and then it will be cooked together, not fried. So it's very easy to make this.
The cabbage contains lot of water and the main idea is to let this dish boil almost without added water. Some recipies suggest to add a little water, I didn't this time. It's the water in the vegetables that creates the nice sauce.
Boil it on low temperature for long time. 2 to 3 hours.
While it's boiling you can take a little time to join the rise for a climate change. I strongly believe we have to both change our own life style + organize together and put pressure politically. Here's a network with many good suggestions what you can do. Föräldravrålet
I promised to show pics from baking bread, christmas style. Elisabet, I curious to see the original, will you show me one day? I'm happy if I can spread some smile with showing theese two, a bit peculiar looking ones.
Long time ago there was a tradition in my family to bake a bread called julkuse (= yule horse) for christmas. This is my first try out of what I heard it looked like. I don't have the recipie and I love to make up my own recipies with ingredients I like. This time I had walnut, raisins and apricots, dough based on with dinkel + wheet flour.
Eva
I'll get back to music soon, there's so much good music I've heard lately!
But here's something that interests and concerns me much too.
With the climate change in mind we can all contribute with trying to buy food that is seasonal and not requiring too much transportation and energy for growing.
Here's a favourite dish, "Får i kål" = Sheep in cabbage. In Norway it's a national dish, many farms there have to be sheep-farms due to the landscape. Very steep hillsides is the place where the sheep spend their summers.
1 kg lambs meat, cut in cubes. I used the front part of the lamb.
1 small white cabbage
6 big carrots (my addition to the original recipie)
butter for frying
a little bit of wheet flour
salt
allspice (kryddpeppar)
Cut big pieces of white cabbage and start and end with white cabbage in the pot. In between you can mix all the other ingredients, sprinkle a little bit wheet flour and salt between layers. Add some allspice, I used them whole, not grinded.
First layer cabbage is fried in butter.
Next layers are just put on top and then it will be cooked together, not fried. So it's very easy to make this.
The cabbage contains lot of water and the main idea is to let this dish boil almost without added water. Some recipies suggest to add a little water, I didn't this time. It's the water in the vegetables that creates the nice sauce.
Boil it on low temperature for long time. 2 to 3 hours.
While it's boiling you can take a little time to join the rise for a climate change. I strongly believe we have to both change our own life style + organize together and put pressure politically. Here's a network with many good suggestions what you can do. Föräldravrålet
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| Bon appetit! |
I promised to show pics from baking bread, christmas style. Elisabet, I curious to see the original, will you show me one day? I'm happy if I can spread some smile with showing theese two, a bit peculiar looking ones.
Long time ago there was a tradition in my family to bake a bread called julkuse (= yule horse) for christmas. This is my first try out of what I heard it looked like. I don't have the recipie and I love to make up my own recipies with ingredients I like. This time I had walnut, raisins and apricots, dough based on with dinkel + wheet flour.
Eva
lördag 29 december 2012
Blue hour in Sweden
Half an hour before 4 o clock in the afternoon the Blue Hour is spreading over Göteborg. It's time to read and listen to music.
Why is it so hard to just do nothing?
There are many things to prepare for work in January with Irmelin, with Ahmad Al Khatib, Martin Holmlund, Roger Johansson-project, and other concerts too. It's going to be lot of rehersing time. Irmelin cd will be mixed. Travels and administrational big time job, applications as usual. I'm privileged to work with so fine musicians, and I'm again full of passion for what we do. (During autumn I had a "close-to-hit-the-wall-experience") Each and every project I'm in makes me jump out of bed in the morning.
But I fight to not start any of that yet. Holiday first. I must take some time free, really free.
Wait.
Say no.
(Alexander techique)
Wait and observe the directions.
Up tall.
Down earthed.
Front.
Back. Breath with your back side.
Relax.
One side.
The other side.
Width.
Now it's time to decide when to take action. Say no to the auto pilot. It's my decision. It's on me to drive now.
Here's some music for a so far grey day, now turning to blue hour.
Miss Li in her official video, shot in Enviken at Jonssons Fik (and other places like the main road in Enviken....) I enjoy it especially because it's made in Enviken.
Sågskära songs from the cd Apelgrå, for games around christmas, "Räven, höken och ungersven". This film was showed on television when the cd was released. Thank you Yoshiaki in Japan for finding this link on youtube!
Eva
Why is it so hard to just do nothing?
There are many things to prepare for work in January with Irmelin, with Ahmad Al Khatib, Martin Holmlund, Roger Johansson-project, and other concerts too. It's going to be lot of rehersing time. Irmelin cd will be mixed. Travels and administrational big time job, applications as usual. I'm privileged to work with so fine musicians, and I'm again full of passion for what we do. (During autumn I had a "close-to-hit-the-wall-experience") Each and every project I'm in makes me jump out of bed in the morning.
But I fight to not start any of that yet. Holiday first. I must take some time free, really free.
Wait.
Say no.
(Alexander techique)
Wait and observe the directions.
Up tall.
Down earthed.
Front.
Back. Breath with your back side.
Relax.
One side.
The other side.
Width.
Now it's time to decide when to take action. Say no to the auto pilot. It's my decision. It's on me to drive now.
Here's some music for a so far grey day, now turning to blue hour.
Miss Li in her official video, shot in Enviken at Jonssons Fik (and other places like the main road in Enviken....) I enjoy it especially because it's made in Enviken.
Sågskära songs from the cd Apelgrå, for games around christmas, "Räven, höken och ungersven". This film was showed on television when the cd was released. Thank you Yoshiaki in Japan for finding this link on youtube!
Eva
fredag 28 december 2012
Flight bright mood
Childrens words and painting of angels.
Made at Rannebergs school, March 2010.
Angels in Göteborg at Hiroshima day, 2007.
Eva
Made at Rannebergs school, March 2010.
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| Angel by Vera. |
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| Yes there are angels, I have five, my best friends. Linnea, 3A. |
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| I have seen an angel. It was white like a paper, small as a fly and strong as many construction cranes. |
Angels in Göteborg at Hiroshima day, 2007.
Eva
torsdag 27 december 2012
Bingsjö christmas song, gathering for party
Nu ä dä juli tredag-kväll
å dä felar uti kaggen,
å nu ä tunnan allt förbi,
så dä når int’ opp i laggen.
Kött ost å fläsk,
å stömming därnäst,
å allt som finns uti huse’
å lite brännvin uti kruse’.
Å få vi int’ en ljusbit
i varje gål,
så bire mörkt uti huse’
å inge brännvin uti kruse’.
trad Bingsjö, Dalarna
Transcription by pastor Mats Åmark, letter at Nordiska Museet 1908
Roughly translated it's something like this, but this song is sung in very old fashioned dialect and it's definitely hard to translate verse one. Please contact me if you have suggestions, and if I'm totally misunderstanding something here.
Now is the third day of Christmas
and it's lacking in the keg (to be enough for a party).
It's over (empty) in the barrel
so it won't reach up to the griddle.
(Give us...) Meat, cheese and pork,
and herring as well,
and everything you have in the house,
and a little bit of firewater in the jar.
And if we don't get a bit of a candle
in every farm,
it will be dark in the house,
and no firewater in the jar.
But the best of all with this song is the description of how it all was organized.
Village people, old and young, even children, dressed up like mascerade in the most ridiculous clothes they could find. They formed a procession including horses pulling a pole. On this pole it was a construction where a big wheel was put in place and two men sat on the wheel, wiggeling sidewise as the horses where pulling forward. Going from farm to farm this way they sung this song and maybe other songs too while collecting food, drink and candles for the party.
This tradition ended quite long ago, maybe in the middle of the 18hundreds. When the song was found it was not in use anymore, just remembered by some old people who could tell about the peculiar details of this otherwise widespread tradition of begging for food for parties.
Drawing of bread decorations, christmas style from Bingsjö:
Today turned out to be a sunny day after a foggy morning. Time to do some errands.
Eva
å dä felar uti kaggen,
å nu ä tunnan allt förbi,
så dä når int’ opp i laggen.
Kött ost å fläsk,
å stömming därnäst,
å allt som finns uti huse’
å lite brännvin uti kruse’.
Å få vi int’ en ljusbit
i varje gål,
så bire mörkt uti huse’
å inge brännvin uti kruse’.
trad Bingsjö, Dalarna
Transcription by pastor Mats Åmark, letter at Nordiska Museet 1908
Roughly translated it's something like this, but this song is sung in very old fashioned dialect and it's definitely hard to translate verse one. Please contact me if you have suggestions, and if I'm totally misunderstanding something here.
Now is the third day of Christmas
and it's lacking in the keg (to be enough for a party).
It's over (empty) in the barrel
so it won't reach up to the griddle.
(Give us...) Meat, cheese and pork,
and herring as well,
and everything you have in the house,
and a little bit of firewater in the jar.
And if we don't get a bit of a candle
in every farm,
it will be dark in the house,
and no firewater in the jar.
But the best of all with this song is the description of how it all was organized.
Village people, old and young, even children, dressed up like mascerade in the most ridiculous clothes they could find. They formed a procession including horses pulling a pole. On this pole it was a construction where a big wheel was put in place and two men sat on the wheel, wiggeling sidewise as the horses where pulling forward. Going from farm to farm this way they sung this song and maybe other songs too while collecting food, drink and candles for the party.
This tradition ended quite long ago, maybe in the middle of the 18hundreds. When the song was found it was not in use anymore, just remembered by some old people who could tell about the peculiar details of this otherwise widespread tradition of begging for food for parties.
Drawing of bread decorations, christmas style from Bingsjö:
Today turned out to be a sunny day after a foggy morning. Time to do some errands.
Eva
onsdag 26 december 2012
Myths and songs on Boxing Day
Early in the morning of Boxing Day was a very special occasion in the old days. The traditions has roots dating back before christianity came to Sweden. It was a day when the horses were supposed to be taken to a special well of fertility, a Stephens well. Drinking the water there on this particular day the horses would be strong and healthy the coming year.
This was also a day when the young people in the village set out on begging processions, singing Stephens songs. Food was gathered for the christmas parties that followed the next days. A way of getting together during the darkest time of the year, dance and play games. It was really popular! Otherwise around the year it was so much work to do on the farms and not really time and space for making parties.
Folk & Rackare: Staffansvisa:
I spend this evening enjoying the CD Apelgrå, recorded by Sågskära. Especially the Stephen songs they sing. Eva
This was also a day when the young people in the village set out on begging processions, singing Stephens songs. Food was gathered for the christmas parties that followed the next days. A way of getting together during the darkest time of the year, dance and play games. It was really popular! Otherwise around the year it was so much work to do on the farms and not really time and space for making parties.
Folk & Rackare: Staffansvisa:
I spend this evening enjoying the CD Apelgrå, recorded by Sågskära. Especially the Stephen songs they sing. Eva
tisdag 25 december 2012
Good continuation
God fortsättning/Good continuation!
Snowfall and totally white landscape here! The soft snow makes everything a bit silent and peaceful, wich is exactly what I like. We do a some really warm, heartful but casual meetings today, gathering around the coffé and x-mas cakes that has been the family traditions since long.
Train between Göteborg and Falun is sometimes including a stop in Örebro. We had the pleasure to have "fika" (coffé and bread) at the cosy café next to the train station. Very good service by the man running the café.
Best hot chokolate with wipped cream, said my daugther.
John Lindberg Trio is perfoming today in Övertänger, Enviken:
Have a nice and swinging day!
Eva
Snowfall and totally white landscape here! The soft snow makes everything a bit silent and peaceful, wich is exactly what I like. We do a some really warm, heartful but casual meetings today, gathering around the coffé and x-mas cakes that has been the family traditions since long.
Train between Göteborg and Falun is sometimes including a stop in Örebro. We had the pleasure to have "fika" (coffé and bread) at the cosy café next to the train station. Very good service by the man running the café.
Best hot chokolate with wipped cream, said my daugther.
John Lindberg Trio is perfoming today in Övertänger, Enviken:
Have a nice and swinging day!
Eva
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