Alvar
Alvar is a new window of feeling, of joy, of life in the present. He is always with me: when I am with him, when I go for wonderful morning walks with him, when I fall asleep and wake up with him, when I wake up smiling at 6.00 a.m. and set off with a smile on my face, only to arrive in the hallway rattling my keys, open the door and do a long happy dance with him. To look into his expressive eyes, to see him jumping in the park, so happy and in such a good mood. Simply reading on the mattress next to him, being with him and then falling asleep peacefully. Waiting with him for B. and enjoying how happy he is when she arrives and he races down the stairs sliding towards her. To enter his world, to feel the world as he feels it. To be happy about his progress and insights, which, once he has made them, he immediately and enthusiastically applies again and integrates them into his existing repertoire through repeated affirmation, thus making it bigger again. How every day is a NEW day with him, because he is constantly evolving. Because he is kind and clever and yet so elegant!
(November 26, 2011)
Alvar inspires me to realize that not everything has to be.
But what I do, I do with all my heart, with joy, attention and gratitude.
(January 17, 2012)
Mornings with Alvar in the deer mountains
The sports field lay quiet and snow-covered under a steel-blue sky and
bright, shining sun.
Even as a child, I liked to sit alone and quietly on the small stand of an empty sports field.
I loved it then as I do now,
to fill the quiet, empty sports field with life in my imagination.
It’s nice that Alvar is there and looks at the pitch with the same intensity.
(March 15, 2013)