While seraching through last year's pictures, I also came across pictures like the ones above, photos of my beautiful friends. at each and every one of them I had to stop and think "wow ... I really must have the most besutiful friends in the world". Just look at them, such wonderful people, I can see their personalities (and they're all so very different, so interesting human beings) shining through in these photos, and I'm so glad to have them (both the people and the pictures of them). These are just a random selections (I would have shown you all my friends but there's only so much room): Maria & Malin, Linda, Maria again, Robin, Hanna.
Like I said, I'm going on vacation today and not bringing the cell. On Friday we leave Småland to celebrate Midsummer in Lidköping with Karin and Anders and other friends of theirs, that will be great I think. See you in a week!
* * * Update
I just read in the morning paper that Esbjörn Svensson is dead. It's horrible, it's just too, too tragic. He was (according to me but also to many. many others) Sweden's greatest jazz musician, with so many fantastic albums and concerts behind him. I had planned on listening to him again with his trio at Nefertiti this October, but no one will ever hear him play live again ... He was only 44 (he died in a diving accident, two days ago I think), and it's such a tragedy, he was so brilliant, his music is magical, truly magical. And he would have had so much more to give to the world!
He has given me so much personally, too, not just as a jazz musician and concert goer but as a person, as a muscial being. Maybe if I hadn't heard his music first, I wouldn't have believed jazz was for me. I always used to think jazz was too difficult and complicated. I was about fifteen when a friend lent me From Gagarin's Point of View, and while listening to that, I realised, "wow ... jazz really is for me". This is a sad day indeed.
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