Swimming and not

Being a solo parent is hard. Sometimes it can mean taking your kids with you to do the thing you do.

I Swim in the mornings to keep my sanity. But this means figuring out what my little girl can do without me while I swim. One particular cold morning I helped her with her bag of things to do including drawing and music and my warm sleeping bag.

Katja and her things
Frozen deck at the pool.

What is a curse?

I’ve been thinking a lot about curses. In biblical literature we hear “curses” contrasted with “blessings”. In pop-culture curses are related to swear words. In animism and Disney related literature they are related to spells and witches. And yet at least one translation of the Bible says that “the curse causes-less shall not come”.

So what is a curse? As far as I can make out, it seems that a curse, is something that Stops the intended to happen.