Burning the Old Myths

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi One of the greatest myths I bought into before moving to Norway was that by moving to a new country, I would automatically subsume all that the country had to offer. Somehow, through books read, through the internet,

Considerations on Freedom

“‘There is more than one kind of freedom… Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.’”– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale Freedom to versus freedom from. An idea posed almost 40 years ago now in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s