Pandas do ride bicycles

And this is how it looks like when my daughter tries the panda jumpsuit her crazy mom bought her for Christmas. :-)

To one and all: A blessed Christmas

I got a bonsai, a Japanese pepper tree, for my daughter for Christmas. It includes a colony of five little adorable clay panda bears (it had to, didn´t it?).
Our dog Nana is intrigued and daughter is happy.
Have a blessed Christmas and may the new year be filled with love, peace, laughter, abundance, art and prospering bonsai trees.

Shells from Robben Island

My husband was a political prisoner on Robben Island from 1977 to 1991. This photo of him was taken in the G cell with a camera that had been smuggled in by a visitor. It was in April 1991 and most political prisoners had been released - and the guards weren´t as vigilant as they used to be.
Prisoners left Robben Island with their few belongings packed i apple boxes: Mainly letters, journals and books. My husband had a collection of shells that he had secretly picked on his way to work in the lime quarry.
It might not look like much to the world, but it is my most treasured possession.

Here´s an idea

  Let´s make a panda bear.

Under the rainbow

Happy bear family.

Happy Langa family.

I´m stubborn, I know. I call my internet shop "RainbowNationArt" even though I´m painfully aware that the concept is "very 1995". Back in those days, during the first vibrant years of democracy with Nelson Mandela as president and Desmond Tutu heading The Truth and Reconcilliation Committee (TRC), South Africa was nicknamed The Rainbow Nation. All the different people was to unite as one, like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, shimmering in the colours of the rainbow - free of racism, fear and hatred.
Okay, yes, I admit that it was naive to think that it would happen from one year to another, or even from one decade to another. Sadly, prejudices die hard. The term "Rainbow Nation" is no longer fashionable, and is seldom used without irony or bitterness.
But the struggle for non-racialism, in South Africa, in my mother land Sweden and elsewhere, must continue. Until we rise like the Phoenix bird, I will keep using words like "solidarity", "Rainbow Nation" and "eco-warrior". Even if I they are "outdated". Even if I sound like dinosaur.

Find my happy rainbow card here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/202546438/panda-bear-greeting-card-happy-family?