As we had initially envisioned for this journey, today was a most serendipitous one. We finally were on line at the hotel and received an email from our friend John, who works for REMO drums in LA who had emailed his friend, Mikael, who is a drum circle facilitator in Oslo, and instantly we had a new friend in Oslo! We had the great fortune of being invited to Mikael’s Taketina class and healing didgeridoo concert.
Here is the site address
http://www.maguti.com/Maguti_English_pages/Workshops_and_events/Innlegg/2010/2/23_Taketina_in_Oslo_every_Tuesday_from_16th_of_february_to_16th_of_March.html
We ate a hearty breakfast (so as to last most of the day we hoped, as food is very expensive here). The jellied fish we tried, but sadly cannot recommend. Next, we headed out for the Edvard Munch museum and the Oslo Sculpture Gardens. The museum was small, but great and we learned Munch was quite a fascinating Norwegian painter, we only knew his “Scream” painting- but he truly has an amazing body of work in which you could experience his inner soul struggles. Many of his paintings reflected the early and untimely death of his sister in childhood. He also spent much time in this later years painting thoughtful (and vulnerably striking) self-portraits of an old man facing his mortality. In one piece, his form is positioned between an antique clock and his bed.
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