#jolsen

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My great grandfather had a tendency to start conversations in the middle of sentences. He was also suspicious of anything modern - like nouns. The fact that we heated most of the old farmhouse with nothing but a woodstove was a source of great pride for my great grandfather and endless inspiration for witticisms like, “Chop your own wood it’ll warm you twice!”

- Ragnhild Jølsen

**Photo by Robert Doisneau

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Barn er jordens levende blomster.**

- Ragnhild Jølsen

**Children are the living flowers of earth

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For kvinnene på Gan de utdør ikke lett, - hadde prokuratoren skrevet. - Det er min mening, at først opphører deres saga, når de farer langt fra gården, og blodet blandes med andre slekters blod. [...] Ofte må jeg spørre meg selv, hvorfor det er slik en forbannelse i det, som er gammelt. Og svaret lyder: Jo, fordi det gamle er stivnet, fordi det gamle er festnet. Det unge kan formes, det gamle aldri. Men det gamle kan vel fødes påny? Kanskje noe, men slett ikke de gamle gårder, slett ikke de gamle slekter.

-  Ragnhild Jølsen, Fernanda Mona

For the women at Gan they do not die easily, - the lawyer had written - It is my opinion that their saga ceases only when they go far from the farm, and the blood is mixed with the blood of other relatives. [...] Often I have to ask myself, why is there such a curse in it, that is old. And the answer is: Yes, because the old is stiffened, because the old is fixed. The young can be formed, the old never. But can the old be born again? Maybe something, but not at all the old farms, not at all the old families.

**Two Women Under A Tree by Alice Boughton.

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Aaron Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen aka «Jolsen» aesthetic by me. ♥ or © to @gunsnrosvs in twitter if you save.