Series | Yoko Ueno Lewis | Living Notes - Part 10: Intuitive Sweden, Vol. 3 - Walking through the World Heritage site, Skogskyrkogården
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February 3, 2015

Series | Yoko Ueno Lewis | Living Notes - Part 10: Intuitive Sweden, Vol. 3 - Walking through the World Heritage site, Skogskyrkogården


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Living Notes: Part 10 – Intuitive Sweden, Vol. 3
A Walk Through the World Heritage Site, Skogskyrkogården


Continuing from last time, we headed to a Swedish highlight, the World Heritage site of Skogskyrkogården, the Woodland Cemetery.


Text & Photographs by Yoko Ueno Lewis (Feb. 2012)




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Regardless of religion, anyone can return their soul to the universe.


Less than 20 minutes by train from Stockholm Central Station, we alighted at a small station and walked along a long wall until we soon saw the gate. The architect was Sweden's Gunnar Asplund, and it was completed in 1940. Registered as a World Heritage site in 1994, it was the first architectural work from the 20th century or later to receive this designation.

The cemetery, crematorium, church, and places of prayer are integrated into the natural state of the forest, blending seamlessly within it. Bidding farewell to a loved one… the overall concept of the cemetery gently and quietly embraces this sentiment, transcending time to gaze upon the final moments of the departed and the new beginnings of those left behind. Regardless of religion, anyone can return their soul to the universe.

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Finally, my long-held wish was granted: to return a spoonful of my father's and husband's ashes to the earth.


Finally, my long-held wish was granted: to return a spoonful of my father's and husband's ashes to the earth. On that day, fortunately, I was able to walk under a vast blue sky and pure white clouds, breathing fresh air and bathed in abundant light.

The warmth of the vast forest, sky, and earth seemed to gently gather and embrace the fragmented remnants of our earthly feelings—sorrow, a longing with nowhere to go, unbearable grief, recurring regrets, even baseless anger—as if collecting them with quiet care.

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This place must always hold space, waiting for us to rewind time with those irreplaceable people. Here, our world and the souls released from it can always meet.

By now, it must be buried in pure white snow and translucent light…

Below is the PDF information for Skogskyrkogården in Japanese.
http://www.skogskyrkogarden.se/docs/ladda-ner/pdf/skogskyrkogarden_v2_jp.pdf

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