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