Forecast

The forecast said cloudy and rain around lunchtime but by that time the front had only been lurking over the mainland before its reinforcements dared the leap over the sound between the mainland and the island.
I demonstrated how much I ignored the clouds by having lunch outside. 

In the evening we, the Leonard Cohen group, was rehearsing for our concert next week and by then the rain had started to fall gently. We had a good rehearsal and the rain is actually very needed by everything poking up of the ground at the moment, everything is as it should be here.

On a national level, our government is pushing the question about if Sweden should join NATO or not into a decision in less than three weeks. After 200 years of peace we've developed into a neutral, alliance free country, working towards disarmament and peacekeeping through negotiation and mediation instead of armed conflict. Because of a Russian maniac we might throw all that away and instead heavily increase our defence capabilities and join an aggressive alliance like NATO. We haven't learned anything from past wars, even though we like to think so, our basic human mechanisms are still the same. How tragic. Despite where my country seems to be heading, I refuse to give up on humanistic ideas about the possibility and the need for us to work together, across nation borders and family boundaries.  There is always hope.