Monday, January 19, 2009

Stockholm, flowers in grey


Stockholm, electricity is switched off, something has happened and we have no light. It's 10 a m, cloudy and dark outside. What can I do with no electricity? Walking out to do some shopping, food stores closed. Walking home, dark windows everywhere. One exception: the guy selling flowers is there, an old lady looking for money to pay in the tiny light of a candle, I buy some flowers,  don't know which is the color. We talk for a while about what might have happened, how many people around here might be without lights and how many hours we may have to wait. 

Home, cooking coffe with gas, think of places around the world without electricity or with daily interuptions in distribution. There are big and small problems.


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