Baywalk

Despite the weather forecast we had another nice day in the sun. The rain was constantly delayed and didn’t arrive until eleven at night, the original forecast predicted twelve at noon. The weather must be particularly difficult this year, the forecasts has been wrong, or very different a lot of times.

Keith & Janet, my good friends and hosts for this journey into the north countries, took me for a very nice and exciting walk along a “geological path” along the beach just outside Härnösand. The pressure of the inland ice and the sea in combination har worked on the rock for millions of years and created unbelievable formations and shapes, most beautiful and impressive, yet soft and smooth after being polished by waves. We were pretty sweaty after the walk, only three km long but which involved a lot of gentle climbing and looking out for roots that could make you fall and break something.

I went to see a couple of old friends and had a nice chat and a shower before the evenings big event of a thirty year anniversary with my old music students who stopped school in 1989. It´s a real privilege to meet them agin, now adults with grown up children of their own and to hear all the stories from the past, that I had forgotten all about but suddenly remembered again, laugh and sing together and fill in the thirty year gap of events, tragedies, joys and careers. I was quite overwhelmed by all praise us teachers got from them and how much those years has ºmeant to them and their choices in life. Many has continued with careers involving music and some has become teachers themselves. Not having children myself, this is the closest I´ll get so see what became of the next generation and I can feel proud to have played an important roll in someone’s life. A huge payoff for a pensioned old teacher.