tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165250182024-03-13T11:32:19.147+01:00The World According to Piapersonal lifestyle blog by stockholmer with soft spot for anything bright and beautiful to ease weltschmerz : freelance copywriter, communicator, social media and community manager, content editor : vegetarian ex-lawyer : thinker, tea drinker, reader, traveller and curious ponderer : the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated/gandhi, just remember that the path to moral progress begins with each and everyone of us as individuals.Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3805125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-85349481656961931512024-03-04T00:00:00.003+01:002024-03-04T01:12:09.284+01:00thank you february, welcome march 2024A month later life continues. Without nothing really exciting, promising, hopeful or joyful happening on a personal level.And the world craziness with wars, violence, genocide still exist. Not to mention how little is done to battle climate disaster, loss of biodiversity, the tipping points. The focus is solely on weapons and mayhem.It’s rough to be a human who believes in kindness, Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-76769053130592638332024-02-02T06:55:00.005+01:002024-02-03T20:41:33.431+01:00bye veganuary, hello february 2024 Veganuary 2024 has been a seemingly endless cold, icy and rough month. With temperatures going up and down between -20C to +7C on these latitudes (further up north in Sweden it has been temperatures around -40C…).The month began with snow storms and heaps of snow. It ended with a couple of weeks with rain turning into the most awful amount of ice and making it pretty much impossible to go Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-6522829289388870862023-12-31T18:30:00.001+01:002024-01-01T00:19:55.090+01:00 happy, hopeful, healthy sparkly new year 2024 As we are saying farewell to 2023, for many of us a sadly disappointing and dispiriting year for various reasons, I also like to remember it as a year full of lessons and growth. Because what else can we take with us from a year as draining as this one?I had such high hopes for a truly great year, after the chaos of 2022, but those hopes were firmly put to shame. Of course there were regular Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-14402367726676543602023-12-24T18:35:00.001+01:002023-12-31T17:58:41.491+01:00have yourselves a lovely little christmas 2023 ~ Hoping for a warm, kind and compassionate Christmas for most every sentient being on this planet - I know 2023 certainly hasn’t shown an abundance of human behaviour that deserves such care and concideration, but to hope most of us cling still. And other innocent animals deserve it, always.Myself I’m alas feeling poorly again, with odd symptoms of weird things, so I might just have to find Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-66483181566617099912023-12-03T23:08:00.000+01:002023-12-03T23:08:41.841+01:00thank you november, welcome december 2023 And happy Advent 1st!This could lead to another lengthy post, but I like to keep it short and focus on three things I concider the highlights this past month, of late November and early December.This was fun, being interviewed by and on the November 2022 cover of this online magazine. If you’re an old reader here, you most likely now my story already, but I have to say that pondering my wayPia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-6552580994000220682023-11-01T22:08:00.002+01:002023-11-01T22:08:44.844+01:00happy world vegan day and world vegan month 2023 November 1 ie World Vegan Day marks the beginning of World Vegan Month. And it has never ever been easier to become part of the solution and joining the kind force for good. For the planet, for the animals and for your health.There are lovely vegan food for literally every taste bud and for every wallet size, whether you like to cook yourself or eating out. Going vegan is never ever a Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-29469276071241252312023-10-25T22:01:00.004+02:002023-10-28T22:00:06.531+02:00birthday á la 2023 Had such hope for a great October month. Instead I’ve spent almost three weeks (and counting) really sick in a horrid flu. Apart from the awful, painful coughing I had an eye infection and lost my hearing for a while. Still not 100% back, but little by little…Little mum caught the virus when she went to the city with a friend (who didn’t get sick) on October 1st, got sick a couple of Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-6446410842970288252023-10-04T01:49:00.004+02:002023-10-04T10:03:30.509+02:00hello october 2023, let’s make this a fabulastic month Welcome my birthday month! I would be ever so grateful if we could make it an awsome one, Universe! The month has already kicked off with three important days -October 1 - World Vegetarian Day (and obviously followed by October being World Vegetarian Month, leading up to World Vegan Day and World Vegan Month 🌱 November)International Coffee Day shared the day - which made me do a very Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-55006824233972761612023-09-20T23:32:00.012+02:002023-09-22T09:59:32.366+02:00when august meets september 2023 On August 1st 2023 I finally cut my hair at a professional salon for the first time since 2017/18. As a welcome to new beginnings. (If you do it they will come.)As easy as it is to cut your own hair with a hair type like mine it’s close to impossible, unless you do have eyes in the back of your head, the neck as crisp as you get it at a salon.And I wanted a French bob looking as it should Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-64675473555784301932023-07-31T23:57:00.003+02:002023-08-01T00:26:48.323+02:00farewell july, welcome august 2023 My July has been an overall slow and rather restful month - opposite to what’s happening around the globel as well as in Sweden in general I suppose - in my parts of the country I think June was the exhaustingly hot and global boiling month, July has offered relief in the shape of much welcomed rain.So keeping this post very short, for me, I’ve spent it reading, walking, cooking - for the Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-30546656941858764992023-06-06T23:58:00.018+02:002023-07-08T15:16:17.484+02:00thank you may, welcome june 2023June 6 is not just the sixth day of June in Sweden but also our National Day, our Independence Day since it was this day in 1523 the union of Denmark was no more. And obviously today is even more special since it marks 500 years since.As I have written before, there are many things, too many, that have gone completely awry with this country (like far too many countries all over the globe Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-75357936183772021042023-05-05T00:07:00.001+02:002023-09-22T10:00:03.664+02:00spring has sprung 2023, part IIII had planned to head into the city this past week, to watch the magic cherry blossom trees in bloom in Kungsträdgården again. I haven’t seen them since pre-pandemic 2019. But then little mom got a terrible cold, and then a week later it was alas my turn. Still recovering, hopefully I’ll be reasonably alright again this upcoming week. But sadly I think that most of the city cherry blossoms will Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-45384832004274490382023-04-30T01:37:00.000+02:002023-04-30T01:37:19.394+02:00spring has sprung 2023, part II I attended a great talk with well-renowned vegan activist and author, Tobias Leenaert last month. He has wrote ’How to create a vegan world, a pragmatic approach’ which I highly recommend. It was a very good, insightful and thought-provoking evening. And quotes that akways make me cry in despair. What a horrific world humans have forced upon innocent beings. And still the majority of Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-2591379974319347642023-04-25T00:01:00.001+02:002023-04-25T00:18:09.288+02:00spring has sprung 2023, part I Almost two months later I emerge, alas not a new and improved me, myself and I. But I am good enough as I am, and some days even awesome and brilliant. And one day, one week, one month at a time I try to be better than I was yesterday, last week, last month, last year. And make more of a difference and impact. Every little step counts.And yes I’m still furious and in despair about our Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-5116040164356519852023-03-01T22:27:00.001+01:002023-03-01T22:27:46.011+01:00trophy hunting lynx in sweden 2023, true story Hello March, hello blogosphere, I wish I could write something positive, upbeat and inspirational today. But there is no way to get past the fact that today marks the day when hunters (absolutely vile humans all of them of course) are let loose to trophy hunt 201 redlisted, endangered lynxes in Sweden. No matter how many signatures on lists, no matter how many critical (to say the Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-32039380170259581452023-01-16T07:31:00.003+01:002023-01-16T16:51:13.995+01:00vegan cheesecake with Swedish ginger bread cookies and orange (recipe) It may be kind of Christmassy in flavour, but this delicious plantbased, dairyfree cheesecake really works anytime. If you can get ginger bread cookies/snaps in your grocery store of course. Nb the Swedish kind of gingerbread cookies are the thin, flat, dark brown Christmas spiced ones. You can probably buy them at Ikea or a speciality shop if you don’t live in Sweden or any of the Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-21774966268799141272022-12-31T23:49:00.000+01:002022-12-31T23:49:03.203+01:00farewell 2022, welcome 2023! Something old, something new, something second hand, something blue.Leaving a (particularly rough) year behind and welcoming a new one with an open heart and mind, for joyous possibilities and sprinkles of magic, obviously calls for one of my favourite things - new crisp, clean sheets!Today I got the best of help tackling that very impawtant task. At least according to Ztina aka the queen Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-41675451354902936682022-12-24T09:00:00.002+01:002023-01-16T06:58:45.559+01:00merry everything and happy always 2022 ~ I hope your holidays are lovely, kind and plantbased. Wishing you a merry everything and a happy always (or rather as often so you still appreciate and cherish those happy times without complacency or taking it for granted).I made this lovely vegan dessert - frozen dairyfree cheesecake with silken tofu, orange, ginger snaps and dark chocolate. I know I’ve said it a gazillion times, Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-27378908628409493012022-12-01T19:30:00.015+01:002022-12-02T11:18:23.455+01:00thank you november, welcome december 2022December first 2022. I can’t believe how quickly November swirled by. It has been a month of ups and downs, and everything in between. I’ve heard that’s called life. I think I’ll wrap the World Vegan Month (aka November) up with random photos, just like October, because my mind is still tired, messy, weary, grateful as well as anxious and eager so there’s not really room for structure Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-47740418783605617352022-11-01T22:04:00.003+01:002022-11-01T22:04:30.038+01:00happy world vegan day 2022 ~ November 1st = World Vegan Day.With the plethora of information out there, for everyone not living under a rock, there are exactly zero excuses not to, for the animals, for the planet, for your health, to go vegan.Personally I have no wish whatsoever to willingly and knowingly contribute to any more suffering in this world, which is what this world’s addiction to eating animals - the Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-79782428251750001202022-10-31T23:56:00.002+01:002022-12-01T14:55:39.217+01:00october welcome home! October has been incredibly hectic, beautiful, colourful, unexpected and welcome. As it has left me completely exhausted, today’s end of the month post will be short and sweet, with random photos of a few of my pockets of joy.A week ago I turned very very very old - like I’m nearly almost twins with Julia Roberts-old. It was a sweet simple day, as we decided to do something more soecial Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-34521555509839699612022-09-30T23:55:00.005+02:002022-10-01T07:06:06.748+02:00bye september, welcome october 2022 On the very verge of October (my birthday month!) I’m not sure where September went really. I know I said something about having more things to digitally pen down about August, in the previoust post, but I’m not sure what that was. And my life is pretty much about one day at a time, a week, a month right now, since the pandemic to be honest. It’s all about survival mode and not really Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-13614449002683945872022-09-01T23:38:00.001+02:002022-09-30T23:17:27.202+02:00hello autumn, farewell summer 2022 ’Mirror mirror on the wall…’September, and autumn is suddenly upon us. After heatwaves continuing in August, and indoors was still the most pleasant way to be, temperatures have dropped drastically. It feels weird. And sad. Because summer this year was a huge disappointment and a very draining affair, to be honest. Despite taking comfort in my little pockets of joy, it was rough. I don’t Pia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-4551478591000227562022-07-31T22:37:00.002+02:002022-08-01T00:47:13.599+02:00bye july, welcome august 2022Welcoming August in fresh, crisp sheets I am. Won an auction on Tradera with one of my favourite Marimekko prints on a duvet cover, isn’t it wonderful?! — One example of my little pockets of joy I’m hanging on to, in an otherwise bleaker, crazier, hotter, more violent and frustrating world than ever. —I most likely messed other bidders plans up with only bidding on this one piece, it was twoPia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525018.post-67668913213969143012022-06-24T23:55:00.002+02:002022-06-25T00:09:25.009+02:00midsummer news 2022 Yesterday, the day before Midsummer weekend, I got information from the Swedish court of appeal (Kammarrätten) that I have the trial permit to get my case heard. It’s been another anxious month waiting for that. But I’m so grateful to have it of course. Now it’s just a continued waiting game, as summer holidays season (after Midsummer to late August) is upon us it will most likely takePia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16519694952785489099noreply@blogger.com1