A village at the country-side in the middle of Sweden...

I spoke with my mom, and of some reason we happened to talk about the village in which she lives since thirty years. And the people there... Mom and dad bought this small piece of land 35 years ago I think as a place for vacations... Later they built one small and one bigger timber-house here, and two barns... And moved there five years before dad's retirement.

It was the windows to the big house I painted this summer...

But it wasn't this I wanted to write about... I am thinking about society and politics further... From our point of view in this country maybe??

In this village there was a farmer, maybe 100 years ago. He sounds to have had some money so he could borrow money to people in the village. I don't if they had problems to pay it back, but there were poor people, and this more wealthy man could buy more an more land, and not least forests! Farmers with forests use to be fairly rich...

This farmer got wealthier and wealthier and I get the impression he took advantage of other people's not so successful or lucky lives!!!

He got two sons, and the farm was divided into two parts, one to each son when the father died. And they lived on each part of the main road in the village! Yes, in fact!

These two sons in turn got one son each, and daughters too... Two cousins have been living to this day on each side of the main road or public highway. One pretty lazy and the other working hard... One of them, the "lazy" one is still living, in his seventies I think, the other the hard working died in his sixties as his wife...

Mom said that the hard working wasn't so well seen in the village, she had got the impression of. He was fairly greedy (probably as his great grandfather???). By the way, all people in this village seem to be related to each others in all thinkable ways, they have children here and thee with all different partners!!! :-)

And one of the daughters to these cousins and the sister to the lazy farmer got pregnant with one of their farm-hands, but they weren't allowed to marry, so the girl that was born never grew up with her father, but got a stepfather (which I think functioned fairly well as stepfather and was very fond of his stepchild. This daughter is one year younger than I am, but we met in other circumstances, not in this village, which I have never lived in, only visited on vacations etc. But I like the nature very, very much, and i feels as I have roots here, in my a bit traveling-about-upbringing in a middle class and Academic family).

Some years ago, when dad was still alive, they got problem with the well up in the forest, with water to the house-holds. They started to think about boring for water... The hardworking farmer, neighbor to mom and dad, had a lot of animals (pigs and meat-cattle I think), so they needed fairly a lot of water to them... But I am not sure if they also had an own well on their land??

By the way, they discussed drilling on his land, but he said he wanted to be freed from paying at all for either the drilling or the building of a pump-house as he let people bore for water on his land. People got pretty angry (maybe they had experienced this before??? And was a bit fed up with it?). And thought it was very greedy!!!

Then mom and dad offered people to bore on their land. Said and done. So now the pump-house stands on their land, in a corner of it, near the two timber-houses...

Knowing what it is about I think too that he was very greedy...

We also spoke of the man (and his wife) which has the small gas-station here... Despite he has severe problems with alcohol (straight said: he is alcoholic) he has managed to keep this going all these 35 years mom and dad have been living here!! He has been living in a quite nice, yellow house... But his economy had recently been bad or it was something so the question was if he should be allowed to have this house further...

"But where should he then live?"

I asked. I got horrified! Should he live out on the street? And his wife too??? This came so near!!!

Mom didn't know. I don't know if she had thought about it at all either...

When I drove home from work this evening I thought further on how things seem to turn out here in the society... The alcoholics who shall care for them?? If the society doesn't who shall then?? Private people take pity over them - if they are lucky?? And people with other problems??

And think if it should get even more of the sort of people mentioned above (again): people with money earning money on behalf of others and doing it deliberately too!!??

What about human dignity??? And what is life worth??

One of my sisters and her "husband's" dog has got problem with a knee or something, and this dog isn't more than three years, so it is early... She has gone on medication till now, inflammation-checking... But she still has problems, so they had taken her to the animals hospital in the town where I live. There they had x-raged her... They said she needed to be operated....

Now they have an insurance on her, so they can do this... But the hospital sees so they get well-paid... From the insurance company... This made me reflect too... On how things are developing here when it comes to medical care for humans beings... Think if physicians do the same when it comes to human beings... Wasn't it cheaper the politicians said they are striving or??? (thumb down for the government we have here now!!! I say UGH!!!! from deep in my heart).

Have been sitting here writing, writing, writing... Maybe I should do some work emailing!!! And then "make evening"!!! I should have practiced one hour more, but I think I shall skip it... Try to practice more tomorrow...