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The Magic of Eilif ~ Part Two

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Image Credit: Blogs Nosey Parker Toronto Sun  Subtitled: Eilif, I Have Great Ambitions for You This story is dedicated to Eilif Skodvin  and   Eilif Kiland . Please remember to read The Magic of Eilif ~ Part One  so you may catch up to this point in the story. Some few days passed. I can't remember exactly how many. I am fairly accurate on keeping track of what day it currently is. One morning I have awakened myself, talking (babbling?) in my sleep.  I lift up, swing out of the bed, put my feet on the carpet and have that very rare moment of being able to capture what it was I was talking to myself about before I woke myself up doing it. The magic of Eilif has once again come into play. "Eilif ~ I live because I matter. Eilif ~ I matter because I live."  ~ these are exact words ~ I kept repeating them out loud on the way to the bathroom.  After that necessary relief, I went to my computer desk and I scrawled them in a spiral notebook I kee...

The Magic of Eilif ~ Part One

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Subtitled: Eilif, I Have Great Ambitions for You This story is dedicated to Eilif Skodvin  and   Eilif Kiland . Image Credit: Blogs Nosey Parker Toronto Sun  I became delighted in watching the NetFlix Original Series LilyHammer . The premise is an American mobster (gangster) relocates to Lillehammer, Norway via 'witness protection' and re-starts his life. The mobster is played by Steven Van Zandt.  I'm so proud to say I already knew of him as an accomplished musician with " Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band "  long before I held on to his every word, breath and frowning nuance playing character Silvio Dante in American television's The Sopranos . I would watch LilyHammer . I would smile. Smiles became chuckles. Chuckles became roaring laughter. My basic 'social media' is Twitter. I began to tweet and tell people about  LilyHammer . In some way, I felt connected to this show. I needed to figure out why?  I did figur...