Photo challenge day 20: Gather 🇸🇪📷
Perfect timing with today’s prompt since it’s Midsummer Eve celebration here in Sweden today. 🥳
Micro.blog Wishlist
It’s been a couple of weeks since I moved my blog to Micro.blog, and it’s been a nice experience so far. I like the possibilities the platform provides without having to come up with half-baked workarounds. But, as with any platform, there are some things I miss. Here are some that first come to mind for me: Category Description I’d love to add some text to the categories I create. Nothing fancy, just a simple description with Markdown support.
Finished reading: Från Noice till nu by Peo Thyrén 📚
This book is a nostalgic trip back in time, but only if you’re from Sweden and old enough to remember the band Noice (yes, that’s how they spell it) at their peak during the late ’70s and early ‘80s.
Finding my genuine English voice
My blogging workflow used to involve writing in Swedish and then translating it into English. I did it that way to make the writing process as smooth as possible. Today, I decided to try writing in English from scratch. It doesn’t feel natural, and it takes longer, but I want to give it a fair shot. Maybe it’ll help calm my recurring blogging overthinking (probably not). But the main reason for this change is that I think my writing will be more “true.
Speaking of Finding my genuine English voice, so to speak, I decided to embarrass myself by adding an audio version. Worst idea ever! 😂
Photo challenge day 19: Equal 🟰📷
The overthinking blogger
I’m dragging my feet when it comes to writing this post. Or rather, publishing it. Not because I find it embarrassing (well, okay, maybe a little). But mostly because I’ve touched on this topic so many times before that it’s starting to feel boringly repetitive. If you’ve followed my blogging for a while, you already know what it’s about: my ambivalence about blogging. On one hand, I love blogging. On the other hand, I never quite seem to figure out how I want to do it.
Photo challenge day 18: Texture 🪑📷
Never forget to remember
Today I spent the whole day working in the Swedish archipelago. A colleague and I traveled around by water taxi, visiting several fantastic islands of varying sizes. On days like this, it almost feels wrong to call it work. It feels more like a vacation. Beautiful weather, open water, stunning nature, and places that seem straight out of a fairytale. Of course, not every workday looks like this. There are only a handful like these each year, but I’m just as grateful every time.
Photo challenge day 17: Warmth 🔥📷
Jumped on the Google tram, but before I reached my destination, the AI voice announces: “Service canceled.” 🚊📷
One step at a time
One ongoing project for this new home of my blog is to move content over from my old platform—like I just did with the BlogBuddy shortcut. There’s quite a bit to go through, so it’ll probably take a while. I plan to bring over one or two posts every now and then; otherwise, it starts to feel unmanageable. This principle often applies to life in general. Some tasks feel overwhelming when we focus too much on the big picture.
BlogBuddy is an updated version of an Apple shortcut I’ve made to boost and inspire blogging. ✍️
Photo challenge day 16: Blur 💨📷
We all need a hobby
I recently read the autobiography of one of Sweden’s most well-known actors, Mikael Persbrandt. Among other things, he talks about his deep interest in cars and motorcycles, and how he finds something meditative in tinkering with them. It’s his greatest passion in life, and he mentions that he believes having a hobby is important. I agree. Even if we have a job we love or think, “my work is my hobby,” I still believe it’s important to unwind with something entirely different.
Blogging Tips & Tools page updated with a Logos category and lots of other useful resources. ✍️
Just trying something with the beautiful Micro Social app app. 🐮📷
Photo challenge day 15: TIE ⧓📷
The simple perfection
There are many reasons why I love my job. One of them is all the amazing places I get to visit. I make up to seven customer visits a day, so that’s a lot of places – places I never would have set foot in if not for my job. Yesterday, I spent the entire day out in beautiful Värmdö. During lunch, I visited one of my favorite cafés there: Stavsnäs Hembageri.
Finished reading: Thorsten Flinck : En självbiografi by Thorsten Flinck 📚
What a ride! Great book, both inspiring and incredibly tragic at the same time. Definitely worth picking up, especially if you’ve also read Mikael Persbrandt’s book – they make for a really interesting pair to read together.