Archives for December, 2006

All friends and readers of liljeqvist.com: I hope you all have a great and wonderfully happy new year. May 2007 be the year when dreams come true, old moulds are broken and new frontiers charted.

Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”?
~Norman Douglas

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
~Stephen Vincent Ben?t

To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
~William James

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
~Nicolas de Chamfort

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.
~Helen Rowland

I am now finally at home in Sweden, after a long trip back from Australia. This weekend I stopped over for a couple of days in New York, where I picked up a new 85 mm lens (used above at Times Square) and visited my friends Chris & Janet.

Bo, Hans and I were over at the Lonergan’s for a bite to eat on Saturday afternoon. Molly the dog jumped in the pool and hilarity ensued.

My colleagues at our Gothenburg office tell me that there has now been horisontal rain and around-zero temperatures there for a month straight. As contrast, here is a close-up of my friend Tobias’ lawn from last weekend.

Four years ago, my good friend Tobias Peciva moved to Auckland. Yesterday, I flew over to New Zealand from Sydney to visit for the weekend. A great reunion – both with Tobias and New Zealand (I was here on holiday 7 years ago).