Biographies

@brittarnhild

Do you read biographies?
I must confess that I love them. They are often among my favorite books. Especially if they are about women, traveling women, who challenge themselves and the world.

Before visiting Nepal in April this year I had read a remarkable book, in Norwegian, about the late midwife Ingeborg Skjervheim who left Norway and traveled all the way to the other side of the world, to Nepal and a tiny mountain town there. Because God had called her.

The book made a deep impression on me, and when I knew that I was going to Nepal, my dream was to go to Tansen, where sister Ingeborg had lived and worked for so many years. To do that I had to leave the group I was traveling with, and go on my own. But I was in no doubt. This was something I had to do.

I made it to Tansen. I made it to the hospital where Ingeborg worked, and best of all, I met the man who turned out to be the first baby Ingeborg delivered when she came to the town in 1955, and he showed me around for hours, in what he called "walking in the footsteps of Ingeborg"

Then this "first born" took me to his home where his wife had prepared a feast dinner for us.

 

 

After Tansen I continued to Pokhara. There I met the authors of the book about Ingeborg, the Swedish/Norwegian missinary Mirjam Bergh, and I was invited to stay in her home.

 

After I came back home I had to reread the book, and then I discovered that while working on it, Mirjam had, among several other books, also read Can it be me? by Marjory Foyle, a British doctor and psychiatrist who has spent over 30 years as a medical missionary in India and Nepal.

According to Mirjam, Marjory Foyle worked together with Ingeborg.

I have Marjory Foyle´s book on my desk now, found it through amazon, and I am so much looking forward to read it.

Will start it tonight :-)

 

 

 

You can read more about my days in Nepal here