filming Embla Gabriela
music Fabula
text and photos britt-arnhild
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My 12 year old niece Embla has done it again - made a music video with her mother´s song and singing.
Enjoy and share!
The photos makes me miss Reykjavik.
Below is a repost from February 1st 2010
My brother Børge and his family live in a penthouse flat in the middle of Reykjavik. With a view you can only imagine. My camera has been so busy these days. Not only taking pictures of the kids indoors, but on long walks I have done outdoors. In this area near the shopping street Laugarvegur, but also in other parts of the city.
When travelling, which I do often, one of the things I love the most is to walk around in local neighbourhoods, looking at houses, at doors, looking in windows making up stories of life inside.
A thousand years ago this island west of Norway was inhabited by Norwegians. Since then the two countries have strong links. Like brother and sister. Though I am not very satisfied with the Norwegian lack of support during the fatal financial crisis Iceland is living through these days.
I reflect on this while walking around in the area Reykjavik 101. There are so many similarities between Norway and Iceland, and also so many differences. Like sister and brother. Like me and Børge.
Børge was 20 when he moved to Reykjavik for what he had planned to be one year. He had met a girl from Iceland. This first "love story" didn't lead to anything, but once here he met Stina, and two years later our whole family came over for the wedding. This was in 1985, Torgeir was 3, Øystein 18 months that summer. Sweet memories. I remember I sewed and knitted for the boys not only for this wedding, but also for the wedding of my oldest brother Frode the same summer, up north in Lofoten. Light blue boys for the Lofoten wedding, pink and beige for Iceland. What a proud young mamma I was.......where has time gone?
My walk continues. My first visit to Reykjavik and Iceland was for the wedding in 1985, since then I have been back several times. The whole family of six on our way to USA to visit friends in Chicago in 1997, alone on my way back to Norway after spening two weeks in New York at the UN General Assembly in 2001, Embla's first birthday, Agúst's baptism........this is my 7th visit here.
There are strong bonds in our family. It is a challenge to live so far apart, especially when you don't see the children for months.....even years. But we know we are there for each other. Always.
I am flying back to Norway today. Back to The House in the Woods. Back to Terje and Marta. Back to my job. Enrichened by my days in Reykjavik, my days with Børge, Stina, Embla and Agúst.
Once home, I will put the Iceland books into the shelves, and make a pile of books for the planning of my next travel........
