We must give ourselves permission to feel both fear and hope in these times, believe author Katrine Engberg.
When this year’s easter is cancelled, and you can’t see his family, must find alternative activities to spend the holidays at.
the popular mystery writer Katrine Engberg comes easter to stand on the pancakes, old Jim Carrey movies and “Masterchef” with her husband, Timm Vladimir, and their son, Cassius.
What you need to make at easter, and who will you be with?
– In our family this year easter just as important as christmas eve. We usually meet in my svigerforældres cottage for this year’s first sea bathing, påskeægjagt and sumptuous lunch in the early spring sunshine, and it is one of the year’s highlights, so I know that it will be difficult to do without this year.
– My husband and I are trying to get our little boat ready for easter, so we can take our son out to sail in the port of Copenhagen instead. Easter lunch at Christianshavns Channel works as a decent alternative when it now not could be different.
What are you doing outdoors?
– I meet with a personal trainer in the Park two times a week and strength coach outdoor. My back is damaged from many years of dance, and I have a sedentary job, so I need to invest time and money in to keep me fairly strong. It is not normally something I enjoy, but just for the time where we are forced outside – and, of course, the coach at an appropriate distance and dipped rubbing alcohol – it feels quite blessed.
– yesterday I stood with my dumbbells under a flowering cherry tree, and the sun hit my face, and I felt that it enough to go it all. The hope framework in small dripping, and I’m just grateful every time.
What are you doing indoors?
– For everyday hjemmeskoler we our son for ten years, and he is so excited for the holidays, so I think that we need to make sure to make it extra cosy, now where we can’t get as much out. Make pancakes for breakfast, play games and watch old Jim Carrey movies. I must read “I am pilgrim” by Terry Hayes and “hear” The Short Coronavis” and so you can not really get to see the “Tiger King” on Netflix.
– We just need to be finished with the latest round of australian Masterchef, which is the ultimate feel-good tv. I am weeping for every paragraph, because the cast is so dedicated, talented and above all cute at each other. When you walk around and miss people, it’s nice to be confirmed, how lovely they can be.
you Have thrown you over some new projects while you have been at home?
– I’m writing in volume five in my crime series about Kørner and Werner, which comes to be called the “Isola” and ironically have grundtemaet loneliness. It feels frighteningly relevant right now. It was set to ship for the autumn, but now I know not whether it succeeds.
– Normally I’m pretty productive, but hjemmeskolingen, and that there is constantly someone around me makes it hard to write. Right now, it seems, are not the most important thing in the world, when the book will be finished. There are larger things at play.
What do you do in general to keep the spirits up?
– nothing. My mood fluctuates wildly, and it gets the law to. The world is in its greatest crisis in my lifetime, and it is both natural and necessary to be afraid and in shock. I don’t think of it that with to force themselves to “focus on the positive” and “keep spirits up”.
– It is the large own emotions time, and I think that one should give themselves permission to feel both the fear, the loneliness, and the hope, so you don’t get a knotty little ball of repression. And there IS much to rejoice over – spring, charity, music, people smiling to each other on the street again. Hope fills the fortunately still the most.
What is the first thing you will do when the world looks normal again?
– I run as fast my legs can carry me, to my mother, who has not seen people for a month now, and cuddle her for an hour, at least. Then I will take on a kærlighedsturné around to my family and friends, which I miss, so I almost can’t describe it, and hold on to them and weep over the lost spring and the recycled summer.
– I will eat at our local Italian restaurant Famo Metro buy a pair of sandals in Moshi Moshi and go for a walk along the Lakes without having to squint uncertain to all, I pass. I will bathe in the Ofeliakaj and enjoy the fact that people are close, because that is how summer in Copenhagen should be, and I want to share an ice cream with my son without the word “bacterium” whatsoever comes to mind. And then I eddermame to the hairdresser.
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