A memorable night

Last night, I read about Karin Boye, a greatest women Swedish poet, novel as well as short story writer. Much of her works deal with the themes of life, death and desolation. She was a poetic genius who liberated herself through her works. “Yes, of course it hurts’ is the most famous works that brought huge success in her life outside Sweden.

What has inspired me about her poetry is that she held quite modernistic philosophy about life. Even after 70 years of her death, her views are still relevant. She was influenced by Buddhism. Among her greatest works I liked these two:

A BUDDHIST FANTASY

Unlocked is the world's copper gate.
High in its gate-vault here I stand,
and what I see is infinitely great,
and no sight is so without end.

However deep I look, however far,
my gaze receives no help beneath.
All that I know exists no more -
not great, not small - not life, not death.

One single step on pathways free,
and for me all return is closed...
Why do you quake? Up, follow me!
For the universe's copper gate is forced!

INWARDS

My God
and my truth
I saw
in a strange hour.
People's words
and commands were silent.
Good and evil
my soul forgot.
My God
and my truth
I drank
in the hour of my angxiety.

My God
was salt darkness,
my truth
hard metal.
Deeply I shook.
Naked I stood,
washed by waves
of cold truth,
cold, strong,
contemptuous truth -
my Truth
and my God.


Finally, I’d like to thank Sara for introducing such a wonderful poet to me.
Sincerely,
Mousumi

Chile: A country with literary skills has joined to The Bombadil’s Generation!

The Bombadil world are growing in a beautiful and wonderful way in Latin America, and global as well; every day we are getting new writers and mentors who understand the Bombadil Publishing’s philosophy, which is communicated betweens young people who share this message of hope and progress with other young people: and adult who want to too; all around the world!
Bombadil Publishing wants to welcome our very brand new mentor from Chile, Sandra Leiva; Sandra is living in the big city of Santiago, the capital of Chile, the South American country that has born several magnificent writers as the Nobel Price Winners in Literature Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral.
Sandra Leiva has taking with her the austral and long country Chile in our Bombadil world and with Sandra has coming the very first writer from Chile to us, the young lady Fernanda Ferrada, she is writing a roman and is in the terminal phase and we can have soon Fernanda’s book in our prints and we’ll get the book to the world.
Bombadil Publishing proudly introduce to the world our Mentor Sandra Leiva, our young writer, Fernanda Ferrada and of course the republic of Chile.
YOUTH2YOUTH
Melvin Gonzalez

Not much, just a bit

Hi all

Well don't have so much to say today just this:

Down
Up
Sunshine
Homesick

That's what it feels today, including a bit dizzy in my head with my new stronger glas in the glasses. But now I at least see very good, not blurry at all :-).

Picture from Devianart.com

“A friend is someone who understands your past,

believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”

have it nice until next time
Mari

Festive Season Ends; Winter Begins

Festive season has taken a temporary full stop in India until 25th December and 1st January. All our authors are returning and furthering their own fragmentary works. I have already received two novels from Bombadil authors to whom I am mentoring. I am stuck on stunning revelation of inner world, revolutionary fervor of mind and heart of various evolving authors who are not only liberally imaginative but also brilliantly experimental. Sometimes their creative curve, which they express through their eminent stories, is quite gripping and extremely poignant to me. I find their mass explorations are aesthetically superior. I am overwhelmed…

Finally the capital of India, Delhi, is singing the song of winter which has arrived prior to its time. Delhi is quite close to Himalaya’s cold weaves which often take over the entire city. Scorching weaves of summer changed and agreeable weather of welcoming winter pleased Delhities. Mornings are heavily fogged and sunny days are comfortable until winter furthers. Some are thrilled to cherish and some are pretty concerned as this year seems to be going to be the coldest one. Little Felix has started sleeping a bit more than usual: a big relief for Alex and me.

Anne Bradstreet has best said:

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

Yours,

Mousumi

Meeting new people

Today I have been out of the office almost all day long, the reason behind this was a meeting regarding how do develop our surrounding for our youth?

"Leader" an organization who is working with development took the initiative to this meeting, as Barbro who called me last week expressed it: “I want your brain and your thoughts”. It did not turn out to be as brutal as it might sound, after a nice lunch together with six other “youngsters” with a cup of coffee in my hand I was ready to discuss how to change my surrounding! We spoke about things like “what attracts young people?”, “where do they hang out?” and “how can we improve their spare time?”. It was quite interesting to take an outsiders point of view and analyze myself and the habits I had when I was younger. I remember taking two busses who each took 45 minutes and then having to wait 30 minutes to get in to the venue where the band I sort of was interested in hearing were playing. Then me and my friends normally would have to leave about 20 minutes before the whole thing ended just so we could catch one of the two busses home again! When I was younger I didn´t have any problems with travelling, that´s for sure! All this hassle just because we didn´t have anything better to do, and as a 15-yearold I did not want to spend my Saturday night at home with my parents. Which 15-yearsold really do?

Anyways, we discussed these matters and how the society could improve in order to get the youngsters of today active and happy about the society they are growing up in, it was a great afternoon with many different ideas, thoughts, opinions and dreams to fulfill. I got really inspired and can´t wait until next gathering!

Over&Out
Sara

Welcome to our new mentor! And to our fourth book in spanish

Bombadil Publishing AB proudly presented to the world our new mentor John Lossio Hawkins, who is living in Lima, Peru; John has a journalist degree and vast experience of working in tv. Right now John is working as editor to the news program with a majour audience in the national tv in Peru in channel “Canal America Vision”.

John is also a writer and has published a story called “30 Seconds” in the magazine “Prensaperu”. John is 31 years old and single. Welcome to the Bombadil’s family John!

At Bombadil Publishing we are also very happy to introduce to the world fourth book in Spanish “Sembran do Valores" written by the lovely and charming author Susana La Barrera. Susana La Barrera is a Peruvian lady living and working in Lima, Peru. This book is being set at the moment and will be ready for the global market in February. There are always many things going on in Peru.

Around the world around, many other good things are happening at Bombadil Publishing . So many good things happen all the time, and our work continues to bring the world a better future in the hands of many young people who are writing books which send messages of peace, love and hope to their peers - a Bombadil world. Come and join us!

YOUTH2YOUTH

Melvin Gonzalez

Need it!

Well today no problem what to blog about :-).

Yesterday it happened! The thing that I don´t want to happen, I do get so helpless without my glasses!
Mattias and Lena (his girlfriend) wanted some help with putting up a curtain in the window that is high upp above the office stairs. I walked over to them. I was frezing so halfway down i started to tie the sweater round my shoulders, crasch I heard and my eyes was suddenly blurry!! I had in some way when I was tieing the sweater reach my glasses (I had them on) and accidently pushed them off me. Crasch bang, :-( one of the glass in my glasses was broken :-(. Noooo we all said.

Then it was just to go into town trying to get a time for a check on the eyes, I had not get the glasses from there before so I had to do a eye check. I just saw money flying away. But they did not have any time until in the afternnon, suck. Then back to office, but on the way we did go to my home and collected a pair of my older glasses. Luckily I had them left! Did not see too good in them but it was better than noting. So after lunch Mattias again drove mee into town for the eye check. Thanks Mattias! In the end it tourned out that I needed stronger glasses!! So it did get out a good thing from a bad thing anyway :-)):-)). Not so strange that I had have headache a bit moore than I use to have the past weeks.

When things like this happens you really notices that you are depending on something, for mee this time my glasses. I need them to see good on the screen and be able to work, and I need too see good on Tv and so on. I can moore than well understand people that are depending on some things to help them in their daily life. So Sara I do understand that you needed glasses too :-)).

Hopefully I get the new glasses in the end of this week or maybe in the beginning of next. I need and want them Now!

My old glasses (the reserve pair) at the laptop and on the screen honour office dog "Ubbe". It´s a picture from the mobile phone so it´s not he best quality.

So take care of your things in the daily situation, say nice word to each other and give a hug even if it´s not needed!

bye bye until next time
Mari

Last week: A lot of work, fun and nostalgia

Last week was the busiest week ever with Bombadil Publishing with hundreds of enquiries pouring in. Though I am not surprised at all; if you are running for a cause, people are bound to join you. “Great Job!” “Well Done!” “All the Best” echoed my ears. Youths are so curious to know about what’s going on at our office, our soon to be launched 3D social network and lots and lots of questions about Bombadil authors and books.

Then we celebrated Diwali, the festival of lights and prosperity and now, another merriment- Chhat festival- is in the queue that is widely celebrated in the major regions of India especially in the northern states. My mother gave me a hopeless call, “You aren’t coming this time again?” I regretted not seeing my parents for three years now. Hopefully they come to us next month.

I really miss this festival which is dedicated to the Sun. Chhat is worshipping the rising sun in knee-deep water of Holy Ganges at the dawn as well as the sunset holding a basket containing variety of fresh fruits, dry foods and sweets. Devotees take customary holy dip and begin to chant the Gayatri Mantra. It has great impact on spiritual and physical aspects purifying the truculent mind from all dinginess of evil potent, remedying the earthy suffering of mankind and blessing with health and prosperity.

Women have to follow certain rules like abstaining from eating or consuming water, cooking meal and wearing any stitched cloths for the whole auspicious 24 hours. Women summon the Sun God singing traditional devotional song in chorus. This ritualistic aroma ends with consuming variety of folk dishes including every agricultural, seasonal item and vegetables.

I’ll miss my mother and elder sister on this very auspicious day. I wish I take the entire Bombadil team to my place Bodhgaya, the place where Buddhism was born.
....Alex

I DID IT!

Today I am a bit tired, one get tired from arranging stuff I have noticed.

Last Saturday on the 17th of October I did a debute as event planner, for quite some time now I have been working on this event that I was suppose to arrange in my hometown, Trollhättan. When i first started off this project I couldn´t even imagine how much work it would generate, booking artists, venue, security guards, technician, writing a press release and Promotiontexts and creating flyers and posters, creating a budget and applying for money to pay all the mentioned people with. Plus a ton of other "small" things which had to be taken care of. Luckily I have a bunch of really good friends who has helped me a lot with the preperations, but also during the event day!

It has been a journey and I have been quite stressed out, BUT last Saturday I sort of understood why I was doinf all this work; the faces of those poeple being on stage, the silent audience obeserving the people on stage and the beutiful artwork that was on the walls. It was all worth it when the day came and I was standing at the venue obeserving my surrounding, I remeber thinking "I did it". It´s a cool feeling, so keep struggling, whatever you are struggling with because one day you will stand there and think to yourself "I did it"

Over&Out
Sara

Welcome to our new Spanish mentor Carlos Molina Velasquez

We are very proud to presented to the world our new mentor Dr. Carlos Molina VelasWe are very proud to presented to the world our new mentor Dr. Carlos Molina Velasquez who is working in El Salvador as a mentor. Carlos has a University degree in Philosophy and great experience working together with young writers. He was honoured by obtaining a dedication of the young writer Mario Chavez Jovel in his last book “31 Cuentos Cortos” that we successfully launched a few weeks ago in El Salvador. Carlos is a very dedicated university teacher in “Universidad Catolica Jose Simeon Cañas” in San Salvador. He is happy to work with several young writers, young writers whom are writing Bombadilian books, books with feelings, book that envision our philosophy, which moves forward a new generation of young writer all over the world.
Bombadil Publishing also wants to acknowledge the next Spanish book “Inocencia Marchita” by the young talented writer Lady Jerez from Venezuela, who together with our mentor Maggy Jacinto has worked very hard the past few months. The book is due to be launched late November or early December. Our very dear author, Lady Jerez, radiated so much energy and happiness when she contact us, and she writes with such energy, positivism and optimism that you can’t avoid getting affected by Lady’s karma, a good karma, a fine spirit, which represents exactly the Bombadil Publishing feelings, the feeling of a better world which we together with the authors, the readers, and the mentors create all around the world.
Greeting from Sweden
YOUTH2YOUTH

Diwali: the festival of lights and sweets

Tomorrow, we are celebrating Diwali—A night of lights, illumination, blessings, celebration; a tradition of Rangoli, burning crackers, exchanging gifts and welcoming Ma Lakshsmi, a Hindu deity that symbolizes peace and prosperity. Mingling upward inflection coming from sides is at emphasizing point: Mousumi and I have been coming outside to cherish this spectacular phenomenon. Today, the night looks brighter than the sunniest day. Glimpses of familiar faces stimulate conversation on planning for the next day. Shops are already packed with crowd and stream of people are waiting outside for their turn. Cities enlighten with vibrant Diyas (clay pots filled with oil) and dazzling lights that signify the glory of victory over evil.

It is also one of the oldest festivals in India. About 5000 years ago when Rama came after 14 years of exile from the forest defeating the demon king Ravana, people of Ayodhya welcomed him by lighting Diyas, decorating homes with flowers and exchanging sweets. In this auspicious night, people, forgetting the differences, embrace and greet each other; the entire atmosphere remains amplified with entertainment and joviality.

Anyway, we have our plans for tomorrow. We have come with crackers (not much since Mousumi doesn’t like contributing to air pollution) brought sweets for visitors and various colorful candles to embellish our little sweet home. It’s almost 2:30 am but still loud noise of crackers is coming from far and close distance disturbing and keeping Felix from sleep.

We all three are up and we have got reasons to wait till tomorrow evening.

....Alex

Sleep on sofa

Hi all out there!Hmm this morning it was cold to bike to work, brrrr. Well the sun was kind half up but not warming at all. I was quite tired but not as much tired like the tuesday morning. Well I have a tendency to fall into sleep in the sofa with the television on, and the laptop too :-)). Well it was like that in this case. On the monday evening I watched the TV, answering some mails, chatting a bit and then "bonk" or what you say, I was suddenly fall to sleep and wake up in the night at 02.30 (swedish time). I was very clearly wake i could hardly fall to sleep again. So that is the reason why I was so tired. This is so typically me always falling to sleep in the sofa and having the tv on. The tv is the most perfectly sleeping pill in the world :-)):-)).

Like right now :-)). I´m doing the blog, chatting a bit with my sister, answering mail (yes I have several windows open, I have a widescreen:-)) and at he same time watching the football match between Sweden and Albania, right now they have half time breake and Sweden is in the lead for the moment. Hmm maybe i should not do so much at the same time but I´m like that want to help and have really hard to say no. But I like to help, that´s me in a nutshell (don´t know if you can say so but I do).

On the book front I´m right now doing the setting on two books, two totaly different ones. I´s fun to do the setting o n so different books. It´s one poem book and one about horses. Well we all like horses here :-)) and we have two just outside the office door, Ofelia and Sunny.

Ohh the football starts again, I must end this or else it disapears :-)).

Until next time, have a nice week

Mari

When I first saw Felix

27th August was a remarkable day in my life. Being a mother is such a great pleasure and I realized when I saw my new born baby-Felix.

I was stuck on luscious sight- an honest glance on naïve appearance of my new-born baby boy-Felix. Happiness found its way—my motionless wide-awakened eyes—for streaming out. Fragrance whispered in my dreamy ear and shifted me in earthy feelings. Though, I am passing through all the struggles a new mother experiences but the pleasure of being a voyager with each fraction of growth of the little soul is unfeasible expressing in a small boundary of words.

It is a quite convoluted juxtaposition of falling in love with his glistering innocent smile and misinterpreting the speechless conversation he expresses through his crying face. It’s hard to cope up but ultimately rewarding. I have written a few words to express my feelings for him:

A tiny majestic soul, a wingless angel

Noblest gift that awakened me in loftiest thoughts

So charmed, so divine, so worthy of purity he wore

A gracious blessing his charms adore

Deliciousness of lustrous rays-

Crowded on face of adventurous knight

My limbs and flesh stumbled upon scattering bright

His soft brown eye-lashes lifted with touch of winnowing gust

It enlightened and replete the longing of my thirsty heart

Unaccustomed courage stirred and liberated beauteous sight

Shapeless flame of heart demanded an utterance-

But sank in lovely glorious delight

My spelled senses rested upon its graceful inward fragrancy

Like a blossoming flower

An intense urge sparkled in my royal glance-

That embraced in a beauty’s fascinating forms

Beloved god descended from warrior’s palace high

From endearing clement sky

Sincerely,
Mousumi

The sky has no limits!

One of Bombadils coming titles which in Swedish is called "Spelarnas baksidor" is a book about baking, but not just baking, it is also a book about football players! Maria and Sofia, twin sisters has together contacted Swedish elite players and asked them "What is your favourite cake recipe?", then they have baked which ever cake the football player has chosen and after that, photographed it and put it all together with recipe, photograph, facts about and a picture of the player.

They liked baking, and they liked football and thought to themselves "why not combine these two worlds?" When Maria and Sofia first came to Bombadil we thought exactly the same thing: "Yeah, why not". We are all surrounded by prejudgment views, there are always someone thinking something about the way we look or the interests we have got. The stereotypical man likes football and the stereotypical woman likes baking, for example. At least this was the old stereotypes, I pray that these conservative views are fading away as they seem to, because they are far from correct! Maria and Sofia are great examples of that; they love both baking and football, as they should. No stereotypes are holding them back from doing what they want to do; a baking book including football players, and instead of keeping those two worlds apart, they combine them.

So start breaking down the stereotypes and do what you feel like doing, but foremost, be who you want to be; the sky has no limits.

Over&Out
Sara

Hats off to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Congratulations are in the queue and celebrations are at peak in India after glorious achievement of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Indian-American structural biologist, who has been awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2009 along with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E Yonath. He is an Indian who has nourished and flourished his talent on foreign shores. For past couple of decades, Indians have been proving their distinct excellence elsewhere in the world. Venkataraman left India at the age 18 to pursue higher studies and since then he’s been living in the US.

Once again the debate has started across the country: Can an Indian who has cultivated their talent on native earth win the Nobel Prize in science? C V Raman, Nobel laureate in physics, was the last Indian in India who won the most prestigious prize in 1930. It’s been almost eighty years now and India has given birth and nurtured thousands of promising scientists. India has proved to be a fertile land, where talents are born, by giving innumerable talents at par with international standards. Some top IT companies such as Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Sun etc. heavily rely on Indian professionals. Even NASA and Pentagon recruit promising students from India. Things have certainly changed. In coming years, I hope, we’ll see some Indian scientists(from Indian shore) winning this prestigious award.

Bombadil Publishing’s Journey to El Salvador

When the Bombadil Publishing’s delegation arrived to El Salvador we immediately felt the warmth of the country, which I’d left 20 long years ago; the air was very hot and I wondered how could I could have lived in such a hot place.

But immediately the Bombadil Publishing’s delegation felt another kind of warmth in El Salvador, - the people’s warmth. We had a great reception by our “Ad Honorem” collaborator and mentor, Margarita Alfaro, and a big line of people who welcomed us to this warm country as a delegation which will help the young writers in this tropical country.

Margarita had prepared a very “hot” agenda for us; we met different newspapers (both digital and analogues), radio interviewers and TV teams. I could that Marianne and Niklas were affected by the heat in El Salvador; I myself got very sick. Our Agenda, however, was very intensive and amusing. The launch of our very first Spanish book in El Salvador, “31 Cuentos Cortos” by Mario Chavez Jovel, was successful, the media coverage was splendous: TV, Newspapers and radio were all there. They wanted to now about the wonderful news Bombadil Publishing is creating around the world, the amazing news about how young people now have the opportunity to be read, the opportunity to write about themselves, the opportunity to be listened to, the opportunity for young people who want to transmit their ideas to other young people… and adults too of course.

We want to send our thanks to all the people whom worked together with us on this marvelous journey to Latin America, specially to Margarita Alfaro in El Salvador, and to our mentor in Peru, Maggy Jacinto. They really are Bombadilians who spread the Bombadil Publishing feeling to young people from the entire world.



YOUTH2YOUTH.

Melvin González

Hmmm late blog

Not Wednesday but Thursday.

Well I'm late to blog this week, I know I should have done it yesterday (Thursday) but I totaly forgot it, hmmmrrffff. The truth I don't have clue what to write. But I put in a picture, as usual :-) and talk a bit round that.



Well this is my two much loved dogs. They are of the dog race Basenji, one of the oldest races in the world. It is an African dog race from the Congo area, central Congo. I could talk a lot of the history but that will defenitely be to much :-). So if someone is intrested to know more just google "basenji" and you get a lot if info :-).
The tricolored one is my 12 year old "Luppe" his real name is Lucky Swede's Mr Lupus. The red one is my little sweet bitch "Sunny" her full name is Triad's Summer Dream, I actually got to choose that name :-). Well she is hmmm not that funny right now because she has just started her "season" thing!
They both love the sun and as soon as it is a sunny spot outside or inside they are there. Like in the picture it was one of the first sunny and warm days this summer. So this turning to autumn and winter we all three have the same thoughts about, brrrr. We want sun, warm and nice weather.

I will end with two quatations that fits so good to my dogs. First the one that fits "Luppes" spirit in his youger days. Then one that fit "Sunny" when she was a puppy (she is 8 years now).

"Only the tame birds have a longing
The wild flies"
~Elmer Diktonius

"A single sunbeam is enough to
drive away many shadows"
~Franciscus av Assissi

Hmm maybe my translation from Swedish to English in these two is not that correct but I hope you understand it anyway, hmm maybe I already have put it out once but sometimes the memory is a bit short :-).

bye bye for this time
Mari + my dogs

Say NO to Plagiarism

Hello everybody!
I have written a very small essay on plagiarism to help young Bombadilian authors to avoid falling into this trap. It’s certainly a highly concerning issue in today’s publishing world. Appropriating the ideas, expression or sentences exactly from the source material without the writer’s or publisher’s permission is synonymous to transgression of copyrights. Author’s creation is his/her intellectual as well as legal property. Significant similarity between the two writings can allege one for plagiarism. To use one’s thoughts, one can borrow them as quotation but falsely interpreting them as their own creation for ephemeral fame is seductive and ultimately demonstrate the author’s deplorable destitution in charming world of literature.

Kaavya Viswanathan, an Indian origin American teenage author, got a huge fan following after her first published book ‘How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life’ Later, when she was found copying literary composition of famous writers in her book without their acknowledgement, she was severely criticized for being a ‘plagiarized author’, aggressively humiliated all over the world and lost the international readership. Her novel was immediately expelled as a punishment of serious offence. Her eminence was ignored in the dusty and stony ways of ruthless criticism.

Studying different authors is undeniably necessary; they are the source of creative inspiration and flowing own indigenous ideas. Guy Debord, a well known theorist and writer, has appreciably expressed his opinion, "Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."

Happy writing :-)
Mousumi

Mulk Raj Anand: Bombadil Publishing pays him tribute on his fifth Death Anniversary

Mulk Raj Anand was an internationally acclaimed Indian writer in English whose notable portrayal of poorer caste in conventional Indian society not only expressed his soul’s depths of despair but also summoned international readers. He was the first ‘Indian writer’ who intellectually incorporated Hindi and Punjabi idioms in English and persistently maintained a distinctive creativity of Indo-Anglian fiction. He was the most prestigious writer rightly called the Charles Dickens of India for his pioneering spirit.

He was born in Peshawar on 12 December, 1905. After completing his graduation from Khalsa College, he went to England and finished his PhD from Cambridge University.

He spent half of his life in India and rest half in London where sporadically lectured at Educational Association in London between 1932 and 1945. In World War II he also worked as a scriptwriter for BBC London where he became friend of George Orwell. E. M. Forster, with whom he got acquainted with while working on T. S. Eliot's magazine, was admirer of Mulk Raj Anand.

His biographical details confirmed that he suffered from devastating family tragedy that made him an eminent explorer in his literary career. His bitter experience made him an accomplished writer. His first prose was an expression of profound disenchantment to the suicide of his aunt who was ruthlessly segregated from family for sharing her food with a Muslim. In his first published novel ‘Untouchable’ in 1935, he realistically depicted day to day life of a toilet cleaner through which he has highlighted the rigidity of casteism in India and evoked the superior sense of awareness. His second novel was ‘Coolie’ where he compassionately described the plight of a wrecked teenaged boy, the victim of higher caste, was trapped in slavery as a child labor and dies of tuberculosis.

He prodigiously penned down wide range of subjects including seven part autobiography ‘Private life of an Indian Prince’ which started with ‘Seven Summers’ and won Sahitya Akademi Award for ‘Morning Face’, one of seven parts. The Village (1939), Across the Black Waters (1940), The Sword and the Sickle (1942) some of masterpieces among all major contributions.

"here comes the sun"

In Sweden the autumn is now in full bloom, the trees are turning deep red and orange, the air is clear and the knitting season has finally begun!

...on a good day, if autumn in Sweden would always be like it is today, autumn defenitely would be my favourite season! Today the sky is blue, sun is shining and the air smells newborn, it´s a perfect day to go for a long walk and enjoy life. Unfortunately this is not always the case when it comes to Swedish fall I´m afraid. Most of the time it´s raining, raining and raining, and the wind blows right through you not taking in consideration how much clothes you are wearing.

But not today, today the Swedish autumn is smiling and letting us enjoy it´s best sides, so i do my best to appreciate it! Too often I spend my time complaining about how bad the weather is, or how crap my car is or anything really, that is annoying me. Thing is, I sort of realized that one shall not forget to appreciate, so I have decided to appreciate the wonderful weather today and remeber this beutiful day and keep that memory close so it can keep me warm on rainy days when the world seems to have turned it´s back on me.

Just like I keep in mind that beutiful red rose that Christof had put on my kitchen table when I came home and was so tired that I barely had any energy left, I keep that in mind those days when I think things are too hard and that warm memory will brighten up my mind.

I will start to appreciate life a bit more, so should we all.

over&out

Philosophical Sara

New video

I am rather pleased with this new video because it says a lot about us and who we are. Sara made it, threw it together in an afternoon (well not quite) but the outcome is better than had she, or anybody else, worked on it for several weeks. I think the reason I like it so much is that it feels un-constrained, free of bonds - just like us and how we work. It is inspirational, so thank you Sara once again for a job well done.
To the rest of you out there, please sit back, watch and enjoy!
Welcome to our world!
Marianne

A trip to Latin America

Hi all Bombadilians!

After a five weeks journey in South and Central America I am back again to our beloved blog, and I’ll writing about several wonderful things I experienced during our journey. In the nice company of our charming MD Marianne Rugård Järvstråt, the intelligent and smart Vice-President Niklas Järvstråt and myself, Melvin Gonzalez; we travelled to Peru and then to my old country, El Salvador. Well there in Peru joined to us our mentor Maggy Jacinto and we begun our wonderful work in Lima. Later in El Salvador our other lovely mentor Margarita Alfaro joined us. I’ll write about that next week. We met so many people who are working in literature, culture and art in Peru, also many young writers and adults too.




It was amazing and great when we launched our very first book in Spanish in the “Centro Cultural de España” in Lima, Peru’s capital: “La Dama de Negro y otros Cuentos”. The young writer Rogger Avendaño was present and told about his book. The Cultural Center of Spain in Lima was full of people who wanted to know about us, about our great philosophy, about the good news Bombadil Publishing was carrying into the “New” continent, America, and they were very happy to hear our great news about Bombadil Publishing’s work around the world. In fact we have in our Company now many young writers whom are writing in Spanish a young book, a book for the future, a book which will be a legacy to our young people in a near future, a Bombadil’s book, a dream book. Come young to us young people from all the world and join to The Editorial of the Young People, come together to Boambadil Publishing!

YOUTH2YOUTH.
Melvin González