Filing under “things to be thankful for”:

A week’s worth of fruit’n’veg for 88SEK—roughly equivalent to 6.50GBP at current rates of exchange.

The open market on Möllevångstorget in Malmö is, I’m told, essentially unique in Sweden; there are fancy “farmer’s markets” in other towns and cities, but no six-days-a-week outdoor trade in basic fresh produce, which people elsewhere mostly get from supermarkets at a massive mark-up, and often at lower quality.

The market exists because many members of Malmö’s immigrant cultures want to shop this way, and because other members of those cultures put the work into making it happen.

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Been a busy few weeks here, what with a long trip to the Netherlands and the inevitable catch-up after that; lots of things on deck, and this here blog has fallen by the wayside a bit as a result. One of the sub-projects in the queue involves finding a way to make the blog part of the regular workflow, but that may have to wait until the regular breadth and depth of said workflow is more easily approximated. We’ll see.

Perhaps it’s time to crib a weeknotes-style practice from other long-haul blog veterans? Hell, it was part of my own practice back in the day, albeit in the guise of Friday Photo Blogging, the archives of which were lost in a database disaster some time ago. The #weaksignals thing also feels like a good idea, but it’s gonna require some upstream discipline to keep it stocked with material… and it’s that upstream discipline of reading and clipping stuff that needs building out into something a bit more programmatic, I think.

Rhythm is always the key; it’s what has made The Practice an indispensable feature of my life. But laying down a rhythm requires effort and focus… hard to achieve when you’re also working to not drop too many notes as you jam along with the changes, if you’ll forgive the overextended metaphor.

So, do I wait for a lull in the orchestration, or force a quiet passage and focus on the percussion for a bit? Decisions, decisions…